Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.

If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.

If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.