When he reached the New World, Cortés burned his ships. As a result his crew was well-motivated.

I am not an Englishman, I was never an Englishman, and I don't ever want to be one. I am a Scotsman! I was a Scotsman and I will always be one.

I don't understand if you get caught in a fight, but take it out on a room, how that implies some psychiatric disorder.

Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.

A martini. Shaken, not stirred.

Love may not make the world go round, but I must admit that it makes the ride worthwhile.

The key to a woman's heart is an unexpected gift at an unexpected time.

If you have to resort to violence, you've already lost.

If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life?

I like women. I don't understand them, but I like them.

If you can't do it with one bullet, don't do it at all.

One always spoke of her like that in the third person as though she were not there. Sometimes she seemed invisible like peace.

The last thing he ever said to me was, 'Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing.

I'm not sure how we got to this place, where a girl's only value is in what kind of marriage she has, how capable she is of keeping a man happy.

I am in cage. I wish to be free.

We tossed away the horror formula right from the beginning.

But I was still determined to protect her. It might be the one good thing I would ever do in my life. I wondered if God would even notice.

I spent a week living as a man. Which was actually, I'm sorry to say, embarrassingly easy for me to do.

The range in brightness from the purple glow [of the sunset] to the dark sky above is too great for most films, and naturally it is beyond the range of printed pictures.

I think we need to make sure that we are putting Social Security on a sustainable path. It's absolutely something that the federal government is going to be involved in, in the future.

If we lose this war, I'll just start another in my wife's name.