Sometimes I write with music on, and if I'm in a good flow, I don't even hear it.

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.

It's all just a bit of fun ...

I know the colour rose, and it is lovely, But not when it ripens in a tumour; And healing greens, leaves and grass, so springlike, In limbs that fester are not springlike.

If I eat, I can't work. I'll eat when I'm dead.

You must show the world that you abhor fighting.

I don't need music for the good times. I don't have that kind of need. Music doesn't serve me like that.

Sooner or later a rider will emerge who will win more Tours. In every sport we have seen how the records eventually get broken and cycling is no exception.

We are not the person other people wish we were. We are who we decide to be.

It is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke.

A spiritually illumined soul lives in the world, yet is never contaminated by it.