The big studio era is from the coming of sound until 1950, until I came in ... I came in at a crux in film, which was the end of the studio era and the rise of filmmaking.

Political correctness is tyranny with manners.

Political correctness is just tyranny with manners. I wish for you the courage to be unpopular. Popularity is history's pocket change. Courage is history's true currency.

Dirty Harry, for example. Clint Eastwood was not a rogue cop. He was a maverick cop, but he was a good guy.

Telling us what to think has evolved into telling us what to say, so telling us what to do can't be far behind.

One way or another, if you're persistent, fortune always smiles on you.

You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.

Another plague upon the land, as devastating as the locusts God loosed on the Egyptians, is 'Political Correctness.'

To the divisive forces that would take freedom away, I want to tell you something: You can have my gun. You can pry it from my cold dead hands!

Sometimes, to be silent is to be most eloquent.

Any gun in the hands of a bad man is a bad thing. Any gun in the hands of a decent person is no threat to anybody — except bad people.

The church is not a brick-and-mortar structure. The church is made of flesh & blood. Followers of #Christ are the church.

Always be prepared; always work hard and take pride in your work no matter what it is. I still follow that advice and have already tried to pass it on to my children. They, of course, ignored me.

An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.

That definitely I feel is part of my generation: social networking, communication over the Internet, whether it's Skype or IRC or some form of text-based chat, text messaging.

I have repeatedly declared that it is impossible for a true Muslim to be a terrorist, nor can a terrorist be regarded as a true Muslim.

Philosophy starts with doubt and loves only truth.

In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.

You lack the requisite spine and testicular fortitude to study under me.

What we can't do in heaven is sin and witness. And obviously God didn't leave us here to sin.

Show me a guy who can't pitch inside and I'll show you a loser.