I'm not just painting for painting's sake. I want to be truthful.

There's a natural law of karma that vindictive people, who go out of their way to hurt others, will end up broke and alone.

I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.

Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake.

Rambo isn't violent. I see Rambo as a philanthropist.

Action is always seen as the bottom rung of thespian endeavour, that's just the way it is.

When you're pushed killing is as easy as breathing.

Back there I could fly a gunship, I could drive a tank, I was in charge of million dollar equipment, back here I can't even hold a job PARKING CARS!

I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.

Don't be gullible, use life before it uses you. Understand there are no free lunches, and for every action you take, there's a reaction.

You did not just say that. I have a feeling we're on the verge of hugging and coming up with cute nicknames for each other.

Honor is for the Lord. Who the Lord honors, and how He'll do it, is all up to Him.

Country music especially can get very formulaic - you know, you have to have your verses and a bridge and a chorus, and a lot of the songs are written as just plain and simple poetry on the road.

Jace, Clary thought, was the sort of person who liked it when things were happening, even things that were bad

Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence.

By listening to the creator within, we are led to our right path.

I work hard to improve myself as a person - as a father, as a husband, as a manager. I'm always on that mission.

I am an advocate of one form of the New Perspective. But there are as many new perspectives as there are people writing about it.

Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mathematics may be a way of developing physically, that is anatomically, new connections in the brain.