If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

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.

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.

War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.

In war, the first casualty is truth.

Images have enormous power, and images freed from deep within ourselves can change us profoundly.

I don't have specific people. There are so many people that I admire and there's directors that I'm desperate to work with that haven't even made a movie yet, probably.

Drama criticism ... is a self-knowing account of the way in which one's consciousness has been modified during an evening at the theatre.

It is not right to vex ourselves at things, for they care not about it.

I have an unbelievable assistant who handles all of my scheduling! It's like a Tetris game.

A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.

All that we were has led us to where we are, but tells us little of where we’re going. Memories are a weight you can never shrug off.

April is the cruellest month.

A man may not achieve everything he has dreamed, but he will never achieve anything great without having dreamed it first.