If you are going to use military force, then you ought to use overwhelming military force. Use too much and deliberately use too much; you'll save lives, not only your own, but the enemy's too.

There are no innocent civilians, so it doesn't bother me so much to be killing innocent bystanders.

If we maintain our faith in God, love of freedom, and superior global air power, the future looks good.

I don't have time to distinguish between the unfortunate and the incompetent.

I don't mind being called tough, since I find in this racket it's the tough guys who lead the survivors.

If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals.

Don't like to do anything half-heartedly, even if it is a wicked and self-destructive avocation like smoking cigars

We're at war with Japan. We were attacked by Japan. Do you want to kill Japanese, or would you rather have Americans killed?

Today, shooting wars are won or lost before they start. If they are fought at all, they would be fought principally to confirm which side had won at the outset.

You've got to kill people, and when you've killed enough they stop fighting.

I don't want to hear of any of you men getting into any fights with the British. But if you do, you'd better not get whipped.

Genealogy itself is something of a privilege, coming far more easily to those of us for whom enslavement, conquest, and dispossession of our land has not been our lot.

We’re always looking, but we never really see.

Am I kin to Sorrow, That so oftFalls the knocker of my door—Neither loud nor soft, But as long accustomed—Under Sorrow’s hand?

One thing about London is that when you step out into the night, it swallows you.

Every successful sports season I had included detailed daily itineraries. We received one in the morning and one before practice, and they set us up to win.

I've been surprised to learn how many people love poetry. It's beautiful to see that people want poetry in their lives.

I train every day of my life as they have never trained a day in theirs.

I don't think you can ever fill the empty space with the thing you lost.

My money slow, my money stupid, money ditzy

I love shopping on a budget. I believe that more fashion mistakes are made by people with deep pockets than by those who shop on a budget.