"I sort of became infatuated with soldiers. I got to know some of them and got a little perturbed with Hollywood making a spectacle out of them and making them look like they have screwed up somehow"

"They'll always be an England, even if it's in Hollywood"

"Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom"

"The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend"

"A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon"

"Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them"

"Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition"

"Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul"

"Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty"

"Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership"

"Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier"