“I know what you’re thinking ‘Did he fire six shots or only five?”

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.

The most gentle people in the world are macho males, people who are confident in their masculinity and have a feeling of well-being in themselves. They don’t have to kick in doors, mistreat women, or make fun of gays.

There’s nothing like a nice piece of hickory.

You have to be realistic about where you are in life and enjoy it.

Take your work seriously, but don’t take yourself seriously

Most people are afraid of change, but if you look at it as something you can always count on, then it can be a comfort.

I tried being reasonable, I didn’t like it.

Ever notice how you come across somebody once in a while you shouldn’t have messed with? That’s me.

I never look back and think too much about my films. I’ve done some work I’ve been proud of over the years but which of them is my favourite I really don’t know. I could say the last one. I’ve had little jumps in my career like Unforgiven possibly.

People have lost their sense of humor. In former times, we constantly made jokes about different races.

Keep your eyes on the horizon and your nose to the wind.

There was a stool there, and some fella kept asking me if I wanted to sit down. When I saw the stool sitting there, it gave me the idea. I’ll just put the stool out there and I’ll talk to Mr Obama and ask him why he didn’t keep all of the promises he made to everybody.

Let’s not go and ruin it by thinking too much.

I have a very strict gun control policy: if there’s a gun around, I want to be in control of it.

I’m a firm believer in research, but I’m also a firm believer in utilizing the instincts that are within your soul or in your body or in your stomach, wherever they reside.

I just think it is important that you realize, that you’re the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you’re libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.

Brave’ is very specific and extremely personal. Sometimes brave means letting everyone else think you’re a coward. Sometimes brave is letting everyone else down but yourself.

I would be like, ‘Oh, my gosh, I wish I could go to prom.’ But then I think, ‘You know what? A lot of people can’t say they’ve ever done what I do – they’ll never have this opportunity.’

If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.

You can hardly imagine how I am struggling to exert my poetical ideas just now for the discovery of analogies and remote figures respecting the earth, sun, and all sorts of things — for I think that is the true way (corrected by judgment) to work out a discovery.

Most people would focus on concentrating more, and I can’t do that. It almost makes me overthink a lot of my things. I have to focus on not thinking.

Expression is the dress of thought.

I must be worth something if my heart thinks so.

If anything, you know, I think losing makes me even more motivated.