There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.

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.

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

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.

-Do you think artists are supposed to be happy? -Everyone is supposed to be. -I said staunchly, and I knew that I was indeed an idiot and that was my destiny and I didn't mind it

4 minutes in and this video has already given me an erection

If you ever find that you're the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.

Mother said we had reached the Age of Reason and had to be good now. We must have because we wanted Willy Starr instead.

A 'good' family, it seems, is one that used to be better.

You piss me off you Salmon... You're too expensive in restaurants.

The first time I saw Mikhail Baryshnikov it was like he had an anti-gravity machine in his pants. He would jump and stay in the air for 10 minutes.

Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.

When we open ourselves to exploring our creativity, we open ourselves to God: good, orderly direction.

Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.