The individual is not only best qualified to provide his own personal defense, he is the only one qualified to do so: and his right to do so is guaranteed by the Constitution.

For it is written that just as it is forbidden to partake of the forbidden, it is forbidden not to partake of the permitted.

Hitchcock denigrated American films, saying they were all 'pictures of people talking' - as, indeed, most of them are.

The quality I most admire in a man is steadfastness.

Having spent too many years in show business, the one thing I see that succeeds is persistence. It's the person who just ain't gonna go home. I decided early on that I wasn't going to go home. This is what I'll be doing until they put me in jail or in a coffin.

A man stands alone at the plate. This is the time for what? For individual achievement. There he stands alone. But in the field, what? Part of a team.

Invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school.