You can't hit my team in the groin and expect me to smile about it.

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism. They have formed their own 4-H Club - the 'hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.'

There are people in our society who should be separated and discarded.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.

Some newspapers dispose of their garbage by printing it.

Perhaps the place to start looking for a credibility gap is not in the offices of the Government in Washington but in the studios of the networks in New York!

Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike - I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

Confronted with a choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

Be with people who like you for who you are, not what you have.

When one admires an artist it is important not to know him personally.

People are just as happy as they choose to be.

All the problems of the world - child labor, corruption - are symptoms of a spiritual disease: lack of compassion.

If people think that you're throwing babies out, dissecting children, to do stem-cell research, I'm not for that.

I love movies that are saying things that people might find odd at times. I don't find them odd at all. They give me comfort.

You can learn much about life from a checker game: surrender one to take two; don't make two moves at one time; move up, not down; and when you reach the top, you may move as you like.

How much more courage it took to be kind than to be cruel.

If you are proposing to commit a sin it is as well to commit it with intelligence. Otherwise you are insulting God as well as defying Him, don't you think?

I always took a great deal of pride in being original.