"Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upward, forward, toward the sun."

"We must believe in ourselves or no one else will believe in us; we must match our aspirations with the competence, courage, and determination to succeed."

"Exterminate."

"If you should die before me, ask if you can bring a friend."

"An elephant is a mouse, built to government specifications."

"I propose getting rid of conventional armaments and replacing them with reasonably priced hydrogen bombs that would be distributed equally throughout the world."

"Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing."

"Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of every person and the future of every nation. The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world; it is God's gift to humanity."

"Great people and great athletes realize early in their lives their destiny, and accept it. Even if they do not consciously realize the how, the where, the what."

"Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never."

"The world only goes round by misunderstanding."

"Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work."