The more thou sweateth in training, the less thou bleedeth in combat.

Popularity is not leadership.

Conventional wisdom is no wisdom at all. Conventional wisdom is taking somebody else's word for the way things are It's the followers of this world who rely on assumption. Not the leaders.

There is only one kind of failure I cannot tolerate: the failure to risk failure.

For the past weeks I'd been reacting. That was no way to win. To win, you take the initiative. You instigate the action. You make the opponent react to you.

Call it a character flaw -- when under attack, I counter attack. Always.

Knives are like credit cards; don't leave home without 'em and always carry several

What drives me? In every mission I'm on, the thing that drives me most is the desire to find my limits-and extend them.

Have character, but don't be a character.

I don't follow the thought; "Winning is not important, playing the game is". If that is in fact true; then why do we keep score??

Shoot first and ask questions not at all

People, generally, suck.

If life throws you a few bad notes, don't let them interrupt your song.

Find your niche and occupy it.

But, do you know, once you get used to it's rather cute. I mean, if a girl looks alright to start with, she still looks alright with her head smooth.

A child wants some kind of undisrupted routine or rhythm. He seems to want a predictable, orderly world.

I think if I was in over 250 films, the world would get pretty sick of me. I would probably never get put in anything ever again.

I think that for the next short period of time, our No. 1 priority is Congress needs to do its work and extend the payroll tax cut.

I believe in treating others as I want to be treated--but I certainly don't believe in turning the other cheek and the truth is that I never knew any Christians who did either.

There are more honest people and more good people than there are thieves and bad people. It's just always been that way.

I consider parenting skills, those skills that help children: (1) develop clear and important goals; and (2) figure out flexible and persistent ways of achieving their goals.