“When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.”

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.

I made some truly awful movies. ‘Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot’ was the worst. If you ever want someone to confess to murder just make him or her sit through that film. They will confess to anything after 15 minutes.

To me, the most perfect screenplay ever written will be one word, when you finally reduce it down to that. Until then, writing will be an imperfect form of communication.

The church is the gym of the soul.

I try to eliminate as much dialogue as possible, and I guess Rambo is my really best experiment with how to eliminate dialogue.

The only thing that I haven’t done is perform brain surgery on myself. I’ve been very, very lucky. I’ve spared Shakespeare undue stress by not doing that.

If you look back at life, I bet you will regret about 80% of your actions. But life consists of all mistakes.

For every guy, there is an opportunity to be a lot better than he thought he could be. We can’t all be the star of the team, but we can be a star in our life. That’s where you set your goal.

Plan B. You’ve always got to have a Plan B.

I know I’m incredibly unpredictable, and that’s the only thing I’m sure of.

Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up.

Life’s not about how hard of a hit you can give, it’s about how many you can take, and still keep moving forward.

Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake.

If you don’t have a mountain, build one and then climb it. And after you climb it, build another one; otherwise you start to flatline in your life.

Your spiritual sense will make you either a winner or a loser.

I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism.

For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help sooth me.

The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous countries, and the quality of life deteriorates; and yet I believe that what is being discovered about the infinitely large and infinitely small is sufficient to absolve this end of the century and millennium.

Man is such a wondrous being that it is never possible to count up all his merits at once. The more you study him, the more new particulars appear, and their description would be endless.

There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that’s what it’s all about in the end – everybody being happy and working it out.

A soldier plods and groans, sweats and toils, he growls and curses, and at the end he dies.

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

The cumulative effects of the economic and financial sanctions might well bring the rebellion to an end within a matter of weeks rather than months.

The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.