I loved 'Rocky' and 'Rambo', and am very proud of them.

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.

So much of life isn’t about having the right answer it’s about knowing the right question.

There are 31.536.000 seconds in a year. I am counting down every second.

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

Fortune soon tires of carrying anyone long on her shoulders.

I don't have to know everything that's gonna happen, I know enough.

What do you think of that? It’s stopped raining." I’m glad Jay." Her throat, full of aching, grieving beauty, told only of her unexpected joy.

I admired and valued Robin as a colleague and friend and as one of the greatest parliamentarians of our time. His wife Gaynor and his two sons are in our thoughts and prayers.

I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.

There are sufficient resources on this planet to answer the needs of all, but not enough to satisfy everyone's greed.

In our lust for measurement, we frequently measure that which we can rather than that which we wish to measure... and forget that there is a difference.