War loses a great deal of its romance after a soldier has seen his first battle.

The military value of a partisan's work is not measured by the amount of property destroyed, or the number of men killed or captured, but by the number [of the enemy which] he keeps watching [him].

Only three men in the Confederate army knew what I was doing or intended to do; they were Lee and Stuart and myself.

Well, it made you famous.

General, get up dress quick you are a prisoner!

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem.

Forget the dream. Stay real.

To create happiness for oneself and others is the whole philosophy of religion.

You just grow up and learn to think instead of just feel.

History is a story of violence at work. It all comes down to the old saw that, however much you can gain with a kind word, you can gain more with a kind word and a gun.

When I was 16 or 17, I remember kissing one of my first girlfriends, Kim Anderson, under a stairwell at Disneyland. I'll never forget that feeling.

I deserve passion," she said. "I deserve to be loved- in every way. I deserve a man who'll give his whole heart, not the part he isn't using at the moment.

Here was a man with loads of talent, loads of ability, lots of love to give; but that had been stifled and aborted. I became very fond of that character.

There is no insurmountable solitude.

Dying is nothing. What's terrible is not to live.