You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.

A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.

The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic - just one of those unfortunate things.

If the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms insists upon a firefight, give them a firefight. Just remember, they're wearing flak jackets and you're better off shooting for the head.

Three people can keep a secret as long as two of them are dead.

You can't kill ideas. But you can sure shoot the people who hold them

My last fear, the fear of God, died with my faith.

One of the biggest lies in the world is that crime doesn't pay. Of course, crime pays.

The official version of Watergate is as wrong as a Flat Earth Society pamphlet.

Once you start a war, you have to win.

If you're not a target, you're a failure.

We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.

[Harriet Tubman] lived such a full, complex, and irrefutably-dynamic life that all the craft in the world would be insufficient in honoring her legacy.

I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.

Don't you find any irony in a vampire sucking up?

To win Grand Slams you have to be in the right frame of mind, the right physical shape.

If you can light the spark of curiosity in a child, they will learn without any further assistance.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.

There were a couple of times I wondered whether I was going to get a pink slip.

I know very much what I believe.

It might be good to open our eyes and see.