Despite what your momma told you, Violence does solve problems.

The Navy credits me with more kills as a sniper than any other American service member, past or present.

I don't know if I'm the best of the best. But I did know that if I quit, I wouldn't be.

I’m willing to meet my creator and answer every shot that I took.

It is our duty to serve those who serve us.

MY REGRETS ARE ABOUT THE PEOPLE I COULDN’T SAVE—Marines, soldiers, my buddies. I still feel their loss. I still ache for my failure to protect them.

There's no reason someone who has fought for their country should be homeless of jobless.

But real life doesn't travel in a perfect straight line; it doesn't necessarily have that 'all lived happily ever after' bit. You have to work on where you're going.

Every person I killed I strongly believe that they were bad. When I do go face God there is going to be lots of things I will have to account for but killing any of those people is not one of them.

What wounded veteran's don't need is sympathy. THey need to be treated like the men they are: equals, heroes, and people who still have tremendous value for society.

I would love for people to be able to think of me as a guy who stood up for what he believed in and helped make a difference for the vets.

Sometimes you've got to be able to listen to yourself and be okay with no one else understanding.

Knowledge is a potential power when we use it to gain wisdom through reflection and careful actions.

Her death...brought me as nothing else could do to know and end my jealousy of God. It saved her faith from assault.

Would you give up the craft of your hands, and the passion of your heart, and the hunger of your mind, to buy safety?

There are people who, the more you do for them, the less they will do for themseselves.

If I were to ask you for example right now to go back with me and define those moments in your life that shaped you as a person and you began to reexamine them, something would happen.

He that cannot abide a bad market, deserves not a good one

You can't play history and you can't play historical characters. You just have to reduce it to the ordinary.

People really want to do something good. You just have to show them where it is.

A lot of people had doubts. I tried to tell people I never had doubts.