Popularity is not leadership.

Conventional wisdom is no wisdom at all. Conventional wisdom is taking somebody else's word for the way things are It's the followers of this world who rely on assumption. Not the leaders.

There is only one kind of failure I cannot tolerate: the failure to risk failure.

For the past weeks I'd been reacting. That was no way to win. To win, you take the initiative. You instigate the action. You make the opponent react to you.

The more thou sweateth in training, the less thou bleedeth in combat.

Call it a character flaw -- when under attack, I counter attack. Always.

Knives are like credit cards; don't leave home without 'em and always carry several

What drives me? In every mission I'm on, the thing that drives me most is the desire to find my limits-and extend them.

Have character, but don't be a character.

I don't follow the thought; "Winning is not important, playing the game is". If that is in fact true; then why do we keep score??

Shoot first and ask questions not at all

It's not how you start, it's how you finish.

On one side of his brain, logic was standing on a chair, waving its arms to get his attention. On the other side, lust and yearning rubbed their hands together in unholy anticipation.

Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.

It's hard to be taken seriously if you're a young, female artist making pop music; you never know how people are going to react.

I can see where creation often stops while the body still lives and often does not care to. the death of life before life dies.

My voice, I'm blessed to have it.

Criticism- a big bite out of someone's back.

Filmmaking is a thousand choices a day and it's important to just let those choices potentially be informed by something deeper.

Racing is life. Everything else is just waiting.

Filmmaking is not a balancing act, although some directors think it is. I don't believe in it. I like ups and downs. They're the best way to translate my feelings to the screen.