How I hated schools, and what a life of anxiety I lived there. I counted the hours to the end of every term, when I should return home.

I was born under the Blue Ridge, and under that side which is blue in the evening light, in a wild land of game and forest and rushing waters.

I have not always been wrong. History will bear me out, particularly as I shall write that history myself.

If we win, nobody will care. If we lose, there will be nobody to care.

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing.

Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about.