Fear is a force that sharpens your senses. Being afraid is a state of paralysis in which you can't do anything.

There's a storm inside of us, a burning river, a drive. You push yourself further than anyone could think possible. You are never out of the fight.

In death as in life, we stand together, always a family, always a team. The brotherhood never dies.

Anything worth doing is worth over-doing. Moderation is for cowards.

Don't let your thoughts run away with you, don't start planning to bail out because you're worried about the future and how much you can take. Don't look ahead to the pain. Just get through the day.

Because everyone knows liberals have never been wrong about anything. You can ask them. Anytime.

There is no other way to beat a terrorist. You must fight like him, or he will surely kill you.

There's a storm inside of us. I've heard many team guys speak of this. A burning. A river. A drive.

You always have to strive

We all have our crosses to bear. We carry them heavily, out of love for our brothers in arms. But sometimes you have to let go of the idea that anyone down here is in control.

To break a Navy Seal, you have to kill us. That's why we can make it into our training. That's why we can call ourselves Seals because the only way your gonna break us is to kill us.

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

People can't change. We're pre-programmed robots going through the motions. We're the same at death as we are at birth.

We can't defend Japan, a behemoth, selling us cars by the million.

I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things.

The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages.

Okay, so what we really have to recognize and own as Americans is that our way of being is itself perhaps the greatest threat to the continuation of civilization.

I see movies all the time that manipulate you by playing a high note on the piano or some string instrument, and suddenly you're crying. I'm sick of being told what to think.

Do not seek the answers. Let the answers find you.

Before I begin, let me say right here and now that I'm a country boy. And, man, I mean the real backwoods! That's at the start of the start of the thing, and that's at the heart of the thing.

Our very business is to teach the great lesson of self-denial and humility to our people, and how unfit is it then that we should be proud ourselves!