If you're not inspired and you're working hard to pull inspiration from somewhere and make a song something it's not, then it's very contrived and I don't like to write music that's contrived.

There aren't any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to meet.

When this war is over, the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell!

Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.

Hit hard, hit fast and hit often

There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.

The Marine Corps has just been called by the New York Times, 'The elite of this country.' I think it is the elite of the world.

There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.

I never trust a fighting man who doesn't smoke or drink.

The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality

The only good Jap is one that's been dead six months.

She said that everyone has some evil inside them, and the first step to loving anyone is to recognize the same evil inside ourselves, so we're able to forgive them.

Halls are full of strangers, even when you recognize the faces.

Style is not an end in itself, it is only a means to an end - the means of telling a story.

Even though I don't necessarily believe in everything that's supernatural, I like being scared and I like things that are suspenseful.

When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as much difference between what he appears, and what he is really in himself, as there is between a VIzor and a Face.

I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.

I think a lot of people misunderstand what I'm doing, because my films are not easy sometimes. They do deserve a second viewing. I think they get misunderstood easily.

Until you play it, St. Andrews looks like the sort of real estate you couldn't give away.

I look at everything in an artistic way.

It is a severe rebuke upon us, that God makes us so many allowances, and we make so few to our neighbour.