When we step on the battlefield, I will be The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.

American soldiers in battle don't fight for what some president says on T.V., they don't fight for mom, apple pie, the American flag...they fight for one another.

There is always one more thing you can do to increase your odds of success.

Hate war, but love the American Warrior.

For a sailor to sail around the world, the thought is just, sometimes, too much. Thus, one simply goes from port to port in the same direction.

Most people are doing their best, most of the time.

I noticed you weren't checking your watches - you've been shaking them.

We shouldn't deny the pain of what happens in our lives. We should just refuse to focus only on the valleys.

The man who says, 'my country right or wrong' is like the man who says, 'my mother drunk or sober'

Reveal art; conceal the artist.

We cannot simultaneously fight terrorism, we and our allies, while with the other hand we fund terrorism, arm terrorism and train terrorism.

I'm well aware when they fired the starting gun I was halfway down the track, but I still ran as fast as I could for 25 years.

I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.

Being a strong woman is very important to me. But doing it all on my own is not.

I had never thought of making a western even as I was making it.