Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware.

You can't fight the desert... you have to ride with it.

When I die, remember that what you knew of me is with you always. What is buried is only the shell of what was. Do not regret the shell, but remember the man. Remember the father.

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.

Knowledge is like money: To be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.

Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.

There are good men everywhere. I only wish they had louder voices.

The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast, and you miss all you are traveling for.

Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance.

Long ago I learned nothing gets done by just wishing it. You have to do it.

There is nothing more dangerous than a woman with a shotgun. Because you don't know when it's going to go off...and neither does she.

Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.

I had tasted power and I had used it up, but now I would get more of another kind. We would share it, and keep each other from the dark.

No, I can't die because there are too many jackasses falling over themselves to take my place! I may live forever just to spite them!

It is an outrage that people can take other people's lives when they obviously haven't got their own lives in order.

To keep on going, you have to keep up the rhythm.

It would be very hard to bring a wife to Afghanistan. In America, I'd have no problem with her doing whatever she wanted, but in Afghanistan, that's not the case.

A man avails himself of the truth so long as it is serviceable; but he seizes on what is false with a passionate eloquence as soon as he can make a momentary use of it.

The Western notion of masculinity goes back a long way. It doesn’t allow for women, and it’s also racist - it doesn’t allow for other cultures.

It's not subtle or restrained. It's not any of the things you like to think apply to your acting.

I really think that people have to think safety; taking risks for higher yield is a bad idea once you're in late or latish middle age.