A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.

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.

What life she had left could be measured in hours. Small recompense though they were, they belonged to me now. I had only to claim them.

Within the heart of every person exists the flame of wisdom that transforms all suffering into kindling for the fire of creative energy.

I am much younger now than I was at twelve or anyway, less burdened.

The writer is the engineer of the human soul.

The first duty of the educator, whether he is involved with the newborn infant or the older child, is to recognize the human personality of the young being and respect it.

How can you be happy in this world? You have a hole in your heart. You have a gateway inside you to lands beyond the world you know. They will call you, as you grow.

I had basically the same stigma that Bo Derek did -- being created by a Svengali -- which took me a long time to overcome.

A fear is just a lie that you've rehearsed so many times you believe it's true.

Psychiatry is a pseudoscience.... You don't know the history of psychiatry. I do...Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, you don't even -you're glib. You don't even know what Ritalin is.

... and we shall find A pleasure in the dimness of the stars.