I write songs very quickly, so the 20 minutes of joy I get out of writing a song doesn't compare to the two months of joy I get engaging with the people who like my music.

There aren't any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to meet.

When this war is over, the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell!

Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.

Hit hard, hit fast and hit often

There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.

The Marine Corps has just been called by the New York Times, 'The elite of this country.' I think it is the elite of the world.

There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.

I never trust a fighting man who doesn't smoke or drink.

The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality

The only good Jap is one that's been dead six months.

My mission is to identify the purpose of my coming on this planet and having identified it, to complete and achieve it

Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence.

How I feel is cheap and used, dirty and humiliated. Dirty and tricked and thrown away.

Everybody who cares for his art seeks the essence of his own technique.

All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.

When we use this word fun, it sort of bangs up the ordinary and the extraordinary altogether.

I used to hate to go to school, because when it was Friday afternoon and everybody was finished school, I knew I was going to work Saturday and Sunday.

Nothing that is worth doing is ever easy.

I was a fat girl growing up and had to change schools because kids were so mean.

Everybody blames the Jews for killing Christ, and the Jews try to pass it off on the Romans. I'm one of the few people who believes it was the blacks.