I'm not right wing, I'm not left wing. I love my country.

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 could feel the beginning of the story gathering in her throat. Stories are that way, like storms. If you pay attention, you can sense them in the air.

Iron hand in a velvet glove.

The President of the United States has a much wider power than the German Kaiser had, for he depended on parliament.

Something that simply mystifies me.

We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God.

An hour of study, for the modern apostle, is an hour of prayer.

When the party holds the White House, all the political decisions are made in the White House. And being a party chair, you're just an artifact.

For as spiritual as some people think my books are, I've never really dealt with religious things.

I know most of the photographers in Ireland. And if I don't want my photograph taken, they will leave me alone.

If a chap can't compose an epic poem while he's weaving tapestry, he had better shut up, he'll never do any good at all.