It doesn't matter how many private jets you take, how much money you make, how famous you get, keep putting in the hours.

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.

I have learned from my mistakes, and I am sure I can repeat them exactly

I was a chemistry major, but I'm always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I've brought scientific thinking to literature. There's been very little gratitude for this.

It would be consistent and proper for us to join the war for democratic freedom, only if we would likewise be assured that democratic freedom in theory as well as in practice.

He [george W. Bush] lived up - well, he was someone that I wouldn't have voted for. His policies were not mine.

I get very concerned when we start hearing people who want to convert this country into a safe place for children. I am adult. I want available what I need to see.

I'd like to be an architect. That would be cool. I like drawing.

Great principles, great ideals know no nationality.

If a musician is making a mediocre, self-indulgent body of work, they have to know that, for the most part, people aren't going to be interested.

I'm not afraid of heights. I'm afraid of widths.

No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil authority.