True Grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done. No moral man can have peace of mind if he leaves undone what he knows he should have done.

I'm a greedy old man. Life's been good to me, and I want some more of it.

Healthy, lusty sex is wonderful.

General MacArthur told me, "You represent the American serviceman better than the American serviceman himself."

A man is no better than he has to be.

Government has no wealth, and when a politician promises to give you something for nothing, he must first confiscate that wealth from you -- either by direct taxes, or by the cruelly indirect tax of inflation.

Westerns are closer to art than anything else in the motion picture business.