The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.
His [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] own heroes were Lincoln and Washington, and in some ways he resembled them.
Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity.
But there are no loners. No man lives in a void. His every act is conditioned by his time and his society.
A man's task is to find himself, and if he fails in this, it doesn't much matter what else he finds.
Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself.
The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses.
I like relationships and being in love, but I also like being single - you have to embrace all those different things.
No two men are absolutely alike, not even twins, yet there is much that is indispensably common to all mankind.
A child can identify with adult characters- but only if they are sympathetically drawn and simple enough.
There is always something wrong with a song, you can't be perfect.