A man who has been shot at is a new realist, and what do you say to a realist when the war is a war of ideals?

There's nothing so much like a god on earth as a General on a battlefield.

If men were equal in America, all these Poles and English and Czechs and blacks, then they were equal everywhere, and there was really no such thing as foreigner; there were only free men and slaves.

Perhaps it was only that when you try to put it into words you cannot express it truly, it never sounds as you dream it.

Why do there have to be men like that, men who enjoy another man's dying?

The thing about the heart was that you could not coax it or force it, as you could any other disease. Will power meant nothing.

Southern women like their men religious and a little mad.

It rained all that night. The next day was Saturday, the Fourth of July.

If you are not affected, if you are not hurt by what we do, then you will not do anything to stop it. The war will simply continue.

It is the will of God that becomes the passion of the believer

I think I’m going to cut down on my dating, ’ Annie said. ‘I used to need a lot of attention. You know, to make up for that empty feeling inside. But boys aren’t always the answer.

In public, as well as in private expences, great wealth may, perhaps, frequently be admitted as an apology for great folly.

Under no circumstances will any supporter try to tell me what I should do. That is why I have the track record that I have got.

Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine.

[On bebop years] All I did was sing 'How High the Moon.' It seemed like the only song I ever sang.

It is only when a person has his own generator that we can talk about motivation. He then needs no outside stimulation. He wants to do it.

The journalist, whose main duty is speed, is likely sometimes to get an advantage over the diplomatist whose main object is accuracy.

Easter, so longed for, is gone in a day.

Do not seek death, seek destruction.