When I grew up, I only had two dreams. One was to be a cowboy and another was to be in the military. I grew up extremely patriotic and riding horses.

The Navy credits me with more kills as a sniper than any other American service member, past or present.

I don't know if I'm the best of the best. But I did know that if I quit, I wouldn't be.

I’m willing to meet my creator and answer every shot that I took.

Despite what your momma told you, Violence does solve problems.

It is our duty to serve those who serve us.

MY REGRETS ARE ABOUT THE PEOPLE I COULDN’T SAVE—Marines, soldiers, my buddies. I still feel their loss. I still ache for my failure to protect them.

There's no reason someone who has fought for their country should be homeless of jobless.

But real life doesn't travel in a perfect straight line; it doesn't necessarily have that 'all lived happily ever after' bit. You have to work on where you're going.

Every person I killed I strongly believe that they were bad. When I do go face God there is going to be lots of things I will have to account for but killing any of those people is not one of them.

What wounded veteran's don't need is sympathy. THey need to be treated like the men they are: equals, heroes, and people who still have tremendous value for society.

For the sun to shine, you gotta have some rain. You need the damn rain.

When your critics raise hell keep building your heaven.

Shadow crawled across the floor to the yellow foam-rubber pad and climbed onto it, pulling the thin blanket over himself, and closed his eyes, and he held onto nothing, and he held onto dreams.

Life is a wave of creative consciousness rippling through space and time that we have the honor of aesthetically surfing.

Whoever heard a man of fortune in England talk of the necessaries of life? . . . Whether we can afford it or no, we must have superfluities.

I'm not sure if it's fair to call it a "fairy tale," but I really loved Mulan, the Disney film. It was my favorite. I guess it's not really a fairy tale, but you do get Eddie Murphy as a dragon.

Polytechnique is a school whose multi disciplinary, very high scientific level curriculum is invaluable.

The present is our future past, we've gotta make this moment last

Thanks to my father, I didn't have to face the tough side of life. Probably that's why I always chose love over money.

We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.