I respect a woman too much to marry her.

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.

Best to distrust this retrospective radiance: gold dust settles over memory and makes it shine.

Charity is one of those remarkable words that helps to identify the fault lines of a culture.

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

Love your children-and let them know you love them. Children who experience love find it far easier to believe God loves them.

To turn $100 into $110 is work. To turn 100 million into $110 million is inevitable.

The surest proof of being endowed with noble qualities is to be free from envy.

I think every artist wants to have that 'Grammy award winner' tag in front of their name.

My father had a country store and then later, when I was 10 or 12, sold it and bought a farm equipment dealership in nearby Camden.

Some of the songs I do once in a while that I kinda... my set list is basically like my hits, there is a good reason why they are there; people really like them.

When the enemy enthusiastically embraces you, and the fellow countrymen bitterly reject you, it is hard not to wonder if you are, in fact, a traitor.