The carping and bickering of political factions in the nation's capital reminds me of two pelicans quarreling over a dead fish.

If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.

War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

We can make war so terrible and make them so sick of war that generations pass away before they again appeal to it.

You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end.

I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.

After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side.

If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.

The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.

Be positive at all times! Leave out the negatives.

I really think it is amazing that people actually buy software.

Superhero roles seem to be popular. I'd like to see more female superheroes. How about a grandmother superhero? I'd pay good money to see that.

That's one thing I get neurotic about: I need my soup to be crazy hot.

But most is all to do with work. There are aspects of work that are enjoyable, that you could call a hobby.

I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.

I seem to have a knack for picking movies that go on to be cult favorites.

Bravery on the battlefield is impossible for us. Bravery of the soul still remains open to us.

I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.

Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.