I don't run democracy. I train troops to defend democracy and I happen to be their surrogate father and mother as well as their commanding general.

Every Marine is, first and foremost, a rifleman. All other conditions are secondary.

Communications without intelligence is noise. Intelligence without communications is irrelevant.

There's no such thing as a crowded battlefield. Battlefields are lonely places.

I go where the sound of thunder is.

I am not afraid to die

But stronger and brighter than any other was his mate bond with Lana. She was in every beat of his heart, the very fire in his blood. How could anyone have ever doubted his feelings for her?

My dad wanted me to play when I was a kid, so I learned to play the guitar. I pursued a career in music because I love it so much and I enjoy what it does to those who hear it.

There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.

Satire, though it may exaggerate the vice it lashes, is not justified in creating it in order that it may be lashed.

Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path... this is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am.

My life is not about the set list, it is to be set apart.

I hate being out there with those garbage men. They don't get you the ball.

I remember seeing Bill Hurt in New York once. I talked to him on the phone around 1988 and that's about it. I was shooting in New York and somebody said Glenn Close came by the set

I personally feel that people feel very reassured by nature because it makes us feel small and that's a good thing for human beings and for society.