I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't see how I can ever trust any human being again.

In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.

... anything is better than indecision. We must decide. If I am wrong, we shall soon find out and can do the other thing. But not to decide wastes both time and money and may ruin everything.

There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots. And I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter and, I trust, the stronger party.

The most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticized.

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet-anchor of your liberties; write its precepts in your hearts, and practice them in your lives.

Cheap cigars come in handy; they stifle the odor of cheap politicians.

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.

Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

The will of the people is the best law.

You can't get too far into the Gospels without noticing that Jesus made a pretty lousy apologist.

There is more both of beauty and of raison d'etre in the works of nature- than in those of art.

But I'm not a tough guy or a street fighter for real. I'm just an actor.

That's so different in Hong Kong when I'm using my own mother language, I can treat the line in one thousand different ways, with many different reactions.

I was really obsessed with age. I kept saying it was a record about trying to age gracefully.

In a way, I'm very interested in writing about Maine, because I think Maine represents its own kind of history. It's the oldest state, and it's the whitest state.

People can say anything they want to. If they don't want to get the news from me, get it from somebody else. It's not something I'm going to worry about, I'm sorry.

You can spend a bit of yourself when you give yourself to a character. At the end of a job, you have to remind yourself who and what you are.

Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.