“Don't waste time making enemies. As long as you're active, you'll have plenty.”

“The easiest way to be inscrutable is to be completely straightforward and honest. Then no one will be able to figure out what youre up to.”

“Revolutionary behavior and violence are usually only indulged in when people are at their wits end. So social stability depends a lot on how long their wits are.”

“It is hard for people to think clearly because their emotional needs keep getting in the way. The trick is to make thinking clearly an emotional need.”

“People who believe that justice is a pendulum are willing to swing it wildly.”

“Even if God had created us, He would never have admitted it.”

“Civilisation and the life of nations are governed by the same laws as prevail throughout nature and organic life.”

“So the next day I asked Dan how is it that Bubba can get killed, and what kind of half assed nature law would allow that. He thought about it for a while, and said, 'Well, I'll tell you, Forrest, a...”

“It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.”

“I wouldn't worry about it too much, son. Certainly not about the peasants and the servants. They don't feel things as we do.They're human.Barely. They might as well be another species. What would h...”

“Noble blood is an accident of fortune noble actions characterize the great.”

“Be noble in every thought And in every deed!”