Don't get small units caught in between the forces of history.

More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor.

We have two companies of Marines running rampant all over the northern half of this island, and three Army regiments pinned down in the southwestern corner, doing nothing. What the hell is going on?

We have two companies of MARINES running all over this island and thousands of ARMY troops doing nothing!

Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that they're going to get their clocks cleaned if they start one.

My job is to give the president and secretary of defense military advice before they know they need it.

That's what you want art to do, to open people up and start conversations.

Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them.

The idea of spontaneous generation of life in its present form is therefore highly improbable even to the scale of the billions of years during which prebotic evolution occurred.

Now, there are two ways to approach a subject that frightens you and makes you feel stupid: you can embrace it with humility and an open mind, or you can ridicule it mercilessly.

I'm still learning, you know. At 80, I feel there is a lot I don't know.

His movements were so graceful that I wondered if he had been a dancer, but his words betrayed to me that his fluid gestures were those of a trained killer.

You are what you wear.

The longer I live the more I think of the quality of fortitude... men who fall, pick themselves up and stumble on, fall again, and are trying to get back up when they die.

The issuing power [of money] should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.

I wasn't into acting when I was a kid. Maybe because I was shy or it didn't occur to me.