It was muskets that won the Revolution. And don't forget it was axes, and plows that made this country.- Father Wilder

Never bet your money on another man's game.

There was no time to lose, no time to waste in rest or play. The life of the earth comes up with a rush in the springtime.

Sam, there comes a time when the world no longer needs heroes. And then the true hero knows to walk away.

I grew up in a farm in South Africa and I was scouted there and they sent me to Europe. It's kind of been blessed, since then it happened all so fast.

I've been lucky enough to have had the luxury of being able to make the picture I've wanted to make each time on my own terms and without compromise.

From the cradle to the grave is a school, so if what we call problems are lessons, we see life differently.

Short of screaming-hot Thai food, everything can be suitable for kids too.

Why wouldn't female Marines come forward? Because they don't trust us. They don't trust the command. They don't trust the leadership.

It is only habit and routine that makes the void look like purpose.

There's no reason the nation of Africa cannot and should not join the ranks of the world's most prosperous nations in the near term, in the decades ahead. There is simply no reason.

I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

We do not accept that human society should be constructed on the basis of a savage principle of the survival of the fittest