I'd rather do something I love badly than to feel bad about not doing something I love.

There's a natural law of karma that vindictive people, who go out of their way to hurt others, will end up broke and alone.

I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.

Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake.

Rambo isn't violent. I see Rambo as a philanthropist.

Action is always seen as the bottom rung of thespian endeavour, that's just the way it is.

When you're pushed killing is as easy as breathing.

Back there I could fly a gunship, I could drive a tank, I was in charge of million dollar equipment, back here I can't even hold a job PARKING CARS!

I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.

Don't be gullible, use life before it uses you. Understand there are no free lunches, and for every action you take, there's a reaction.

I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.

​Blind faith may be healthy for the individual mind, but it is not religion.

Mindfulness helps us to live in harmony with our thoughts, words and actions.

You are dehydrated, " I said. "The result of alcohol taken in excess. But that is the only way to take it. It is the only way to do a man any good.

Faith is kind of like jumping out of an airplane at ten thousand feet. If God doesn't catch you you splatter. But how do you know whether or not He is going to catch you unless you jump out?

I think you get better at staring into space. Especially living in the South of France.

If you would be a writer, first be a reader

dogs love us unconditionally and cats are big on redemption. Our sins and shortcomings don't bother them as long as we delight in their presence.

The language is spare and under control and has a genuine immediacy...The poems never preach but are lined out with a cool and therefore devastating effect

Eleven would have been the best time. Eleven is just about the best age for almost everything.