Men's minds tend to fear more keenly those things that are absent.

Without training, they lacked knowledge. Without knowledge, they lacked confidence. Without confidence, they lacked victory.

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

The greatest enemy will hide in the last place you would ever look.

A coward dies a thousand deaths, the gallant never taste of death but once.

As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.

In the end, it is impossible not to become what others believe you are.

If I fail it is only because I have too much pride and ambition.

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

The difference between a republic and an empire is the loyalty of one's army

Stories are the thing which shapes our kinky and wicked minds.

Violent crimes had increased from 120 per 100, 000 in 1962 180 per 100, 000 by 1964.

I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard.

I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical

I would like, in the long term, to be recognized as a writer-director-actor.

Because of the nature of my life, because I train a great many people, I come upon such a huge variety of human species, as well as the earth species for that matter.

I've been in this biz so long, it's really my reputation that brings me work.

God pity the tortured hearts that will pant through this night! And the agony of the poor wife who has heard that her husband is really killed!

We had thought that we were human beings making a spiritual journey; it may be truer to say that we are spiritual beings making a human journey.

You can choose, don't confuse, win or lose, it's up to you.