With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.

We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word to us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don't forget it.

To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.

Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.

To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.

When there is an accident involving fire, in most cases death is caused by the inhalation of the toxic smoke. What we need is air to go to a driver for 45 seconds. I'm surprised that this is not done, and I would make it compulsory.

We strove for more than 60 years to give Joe DiMaggio the hero's life. From his debut at Yankee Stadium in 1936 until his death in 1999, DiMaggio was, at every turn, one man we could look at who made us feel good.

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.