“I love being verbal in films.”

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.

I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me.

Stop your ears and close your eyes and try to find the face of love.

They forgot everything the minute they were together again.

If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn’t love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.

We provide food that customers love, day after day after day. People just want more of it.

The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn’t know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren’t.

Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.

Life must be rich and full of loving–it’s no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.