With Hitchcock I had little relationship. I was called to replace Bernard Herrmann his favorite composer in Torn Curtain after the bitter fight between them.

My brother and I had a real love-hate relationship with my success. There was some bitterness there that I didn't understand until recently but I told him that if I ever did a record I wanted him to play on it.

The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado that his strength is only a uniform that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.

We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands.

It's very personal in its politics very bitter and very negative.

The country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. We have to offer an alternative vision.

Let the word go forth from this time and place to friend and foe alike that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century tempered by war disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.

I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.

Patience is bitter but its fruit is sweet.

I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don't want them to defeat me. That would be suicidal.