Maxim 11: Everything is air-droppable at least once.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

If violence wasn't your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it.

Maxim 3: An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks everybody. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

Where's your sense of adventure? It died under mysterious circumstances. My sense of self-preservation found the body, but assures me it has an airtight alibi. -Captain Tagon & Captain Andreyasn

The spirit of the law is the least of the things we're prepared to violate.

The size of the promised paycheck is inversely proportional to the likelihood of surviving to collect it.

Maxim 20: If you’re not willing to shell your own position, you’re not willing to win. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

When the messenger arrives and says 'Don't shoot the messenger,' it's a good idea to be prepared to shoot the messenger, just in case.

Spy' is such a short ugly word. I prefer 'espionage.' Those extra three syllables really say something.

Judging by the sounds of general panic, I want a gun like that.

Right now I've got just two rules to live by. Rule one: don't taunt elephants. Rule two: don't stand next to anybody who taunts elephants. -Sergeant Schlock

I was always a thin kid; I was an athlete.

* The essential respect is the one in your own heart for yourself.

Like all school students, I think I did a play in my school. The common things, I would say. Nothing really exceptional.

Amateurs practice until they get it right. Professionals practice until it can't go wrong.

Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart.

Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.

Animals are not our playthings. We are on this earth to protect them. It's our duty.

We photographers say that we take a picture, and in a certain sense, that is true. We take something from people's lives, but in doing so we tell their story.

It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.

It should be the aim of every photographer to make a single exposure that shows everything about the subject. I have been told that my portrait of Churchill is an example of this.