About Louis Zamperini: Louis Silvie is the subject of two biographies and the 2014 film Unbroken.
If you hate somebody, it's like a boomerang that misses its target and comes back and hits you in the head. The one who hates is the one who hurts.
One moment of pain is worth a lifetime of glory.
Positive self-esteem must be preceded by self-respect. To get self-respect you have to do something good.
I've got to say that is - the highest emotion of the human experience is going down in a plane knowing your going to die!
Hate is self-destructive. If you hate somebody, you're not hurting the person you hate. You're hurting yourself. And that's a healing. Actually, it's a real healing, forgiveness.
All I did was pray to God, every day. In prison camp, the main prayer was, 'Get me home alive, God, and I'll seek you and serve you.' I came home, got wrapped up in the celebration, and forgot about the hundreds of promises I'd made to God.
The kids started teasing me to get me to swear in Italian. Two or three months, I started retaliating. I found out I could whip these guys. So I'm always fighting, getting even. Even the girls in school, when they gave me trouble, I'd take a glove of...
That's one thing you learn in sports. You don't give up; you fight to the finish.
'Unbroken' was published as a help to society.
