“It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful.”

Rocky’ represents the optimistic side of life, and ‘Rambo’ represents purgatory.

If it’s not broken, break it. That’s how new discoveries are made. That’s why everything that changes life is called a breakthrough.

I’m more focused and have a greater sense of challenge, because I constantly feel the weight of time.

Movies are a collective art. Art by proxy.

Every generation has to find their own heroes.

Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but the loyalty never fades.

I respect a woman too much to marry her.

If you’re willing to take the humiliation of sticking your head above the crowd, maybe it’s, you know, the pleasure will be worth the pain.

I’m a big believer that, in life, we can’t succeed in everything. Most times, we lose.

The more I go to church and the more I turn myself over to the process of believing in Jesus and listening to His Word and having Him guide my hand, I feel as though the pressure is off me now.

You are what you leave behind.

Action is always seen as the bottom rung of thespian endeavour, that’s just the way it is.

Gangster is the truest friend I can ever ask for.

I’m not a genetically superior person. I built my body.

I think that gravity sets into everything, including careers, but pendulums do swing and mountains do become valleys after a while if you keep on walking.

When crossing someone’s borders you have to be prepared to engage in a war that is far more brutal than if it were to take place on neutral territory.

Avoid the temptation to work so hard that there is no time left for serious thinking.

The central question of a warrior’s training is not how we avoid uncertainty and fear but how we relate to discomfort.

To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them to the transformative power of our heart.

Chasing unavailable people is a sneak way for the ego to avoid intimacy.

Being busy is a form of laziness – lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.

There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.

Avoidance. Probably the worst dance. – Complicated.

You can never change what you don’t confront and transform what you avoid.