Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square.

War sounds romantic, heroic even, until everyone you know starts dying.

The creative principle [of science] resides in mathematics.

The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic.

Without justice, courage is weak.

What good deed can government do for religion? The best deed of all: leave it free and unencumbered, burdened by neither enmity nor amity.

All my films are all my children.

When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains.

If I found in my own ranks that a certain number of guys wanted to cut my throat, I'd make sure that I cut their throats first.

I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record.

I like girls who are funny with a warped sense of humor.