What I desire most of you, my son, is never to gamble or swear. These are baneful vices.

Abolish the Loyal League and the Ku Klux Klan; let us come together and stand together.

We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment.

We are born on the same soil, breathe the same air, live on the same land, and why should we not be brothers and sisters?

I have stood your meanness as long as I intend to. You have played the part of a damn scoundrel, and if you were any part of a man I would slap your jaws and force you to resent it.

Nobody kills me and lives to tell about it.

I will be in my coffin before I will fight again under your command.

If one road led to hell and the other to Mexico, I would be indifferent which to take.

If you surrender you shall be treated as prisoners of war, but if I haveto storm your works you may expect no quarter.

I done told you twice already goddammit no!

War means fighting, and fighting means killing.

Why do relationships have to be so complicated?

For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?

Furthermore, when citizens are all almost equal, it becomes difficult for them to defend their independence against the aggressions of power.

No one told me that you could be alive and be happy. No one told me, and if someone had I wouldn't have believed them. I thought that you had to die - physically die - to escape.

Cyber theft is the fastest growing crime in the United States by far.

Nothing changes until it becomes what it is.

I actually was a writer who had the ability to perform his own work as opposed to a comedian who wrote his own material. So that really made me happy and changed my whole perspective.

A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one.

Hold on to the center and make up your mind to rejoice in this paradise called life.

When I am with composers, I say I am a conductor. When I am with conductors, I say I am a composer.