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.

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?

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.

Your mind is the doorkeeper of your soul and heart the king. It's unwise to let the doorkeeper control the king.

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

It's a special kind of acting, soap opera acting. It's hard for me.

If you come at movies with your own sense of morality and not your own sense of aesthetics, I think you're screwed. I think that's not a way to look at movies.

I have always loved blizzards, if only because of the driving experience - which is definitely an acquired taste.

Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel.

It is curious how inseparable eating and kindness are with some people.

Any young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and dishonours womanhood.

Time slowed and reality bent; on and on the eggman went.

Lanscape shapes culture.