Since the birth of our nation, the steady performance of the Marine Corps in fighting America's battles has made it the very symbol of military excellence. The Corps has come to be recognized worldwide as an elite force of fighting men, renowned for their physical endurance, for their high level of obedience, and for the fierce pride they take, as individuals, in the capacity for self discipline.

The women who inspired this play deserved to be smacked across the head with a meat ax and that, I flatter myself, is exactly what I smacked them with.

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.

Middle age is the way you would feel about summer if you knew there would never be another spring.

my definition of the ideal man is 'that particular man with whom a woman happens to be in love at that particular time.

Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals - With no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. . . . It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forebearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that-being what it is-it falls so short of in fact and in deed.