"People feel comfortable around someone who is comfortable with himself."

"Why you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, and th most audacious soldier, put them at a table together-and what do you get? The sum of their fears."

"The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it."

"I want to gain 1,500 or 2,000 yards, whichever comes first."

"The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest amount of hissing."

"Fear can keep us up all night long, but faith makes one fine pillow."

"I'm a man of the world, Andy. Why, I've even been to Raleigh!"

"What is a seer? A man who with luck tells the truth sometimes, with frequent falsehoods, but when his luck deserts him, collapses then and there."

"Politics are a lousy way for a free man to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort."

"I believe that much of the world's sorrow is caused by people who are this, but allow themselves to be treated like that."

"If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there."

"For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others."