War is very simple, direct, and ruthless. It takes a simple, direct, and ruthless man to wage war.

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

May God have mercy for my enemies because I won't.

I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

Give me an Army of West Point graduates and I'll win a battle... Give me a handful of Texas Aggies and I'll win a war.

A leader is a man who can adapt principles to circumstances.

Better to fight for something than live for nothing.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

Fear kills more people than death.

Give me the purple smoke, rising higher and higher into my brain until I dance with the purple butterflies.” -Girl with the violet eyes.

To survive the day is triumph enough for the walking wounded among the great many of us.

I do a lot of things intuitively. I'm not often consciously aware of what I'm doing. It's like in a dream: There's something going on that's powerful but you don't know exactly why.

In America, Qualification is simply an attitude. I've adopted it. So, yes. I am qualified.

I'm focusing on healing lives and teaching people that they can heal - giving them tools to heal.

I ran across a rattlesnake once in New Mexico, you know what I did with it, chopped its head off and we ate it.

If my house was on fire, I can't compromise about which part of the house I'm going to save. You save the whole house or it will all burn down. We either save this country or we do not.

Your home should be a reflection of how you want to live right now, and for the next phase of your life.

Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it.

I'm a storyteller who uses all of the beauty and power of cinema to tell tales of human struggles for positive social change.