Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.

If you are going to use military force, then you ought to use overwhelming military force. Use too much and deliberately use too much; you'll save lives, not only your own, but the enemy's too.

There are no innocent civilians, so it doesn't bother me so much to be killing innocent bystanders.

If we maintain our faith in God, love of freedom, and superior global air power, the future looks good.

I don't have time to distinguish between the unfortunate and the incompetent.

I don't mind being called tough, since I find in this racket it's the tough guys who lead the survivors.

If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals.

Don't like to do anything half-heartedly, even if it is a wicked and self-destructive avocation like smoking cigars

We're at war with Japan. We were attacked by Japan. Do you want to kill Japanese, or would you rather have Americans killed?

Today, shooting wars are won or lost before they start. If they are fought at all, they would be fought principally to confirm which side had won at the outset.

You've got to kill people, and when you've killed enough they stop fighting.

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, 'The medicines of the soul.

You can create the life you wish to have.

Theatre is the art of looking at ourselves.

Fighting Dad's not a fight. Fighting dad is, "Hi, you've just instigated your own mugging! Come on down!"

We are made for loving.

Yes, it's tough, but not as tough as doing comedy.

The fashion just now is a Roman Catholic frame of mind with an Agnostic conscience: you get the mediaeval picturesqueness of the one with the modern conveniences of the other.

I've always been a person that, if I'm with a woman, she's in the picture. Even my son's mom, she was on my early (album) covers.

Knowing that you do not know is the best. Not knowing that you do not know is an illness.

But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep. No effort that you make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep.