American stuntmen are smart – they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance… But in Hong Kong, we don’t know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you’ve got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt.

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, I know that the men and women of our intelligence community put their lives on the line every day, and they do very dangerous work to keep our country safe.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I’ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?

The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

Superman don’t need no seat belt.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

I’ve played with IVs before, during and after games. I’ve played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don’t miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn’t that serious in the first place.

Lightning is something which, again, we would rather avoid.

In the ’60s and ’70s and early ’80s, the trainers would grind you, and eventually they would break something – they would break an ankle in ways that it would heal. It was just the way of the business, to ensure that you learned respect for wrestling.

Above everything else I’ve done, I’ve always said I’ve had more guts than I’ve got talent.

Political courage is not political suicide.

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

I’ve always hated the danger part of climbing, and it’s great to come down again because it’s safe.

The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.

A financial institution has the task of taking risks, and if it’s a well run institution – say, Goldman Sachs – it tries to cover the potential losses to itself, but only to itself.

A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

There’s a silly notion that failure’s not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.

The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.

I wish every American had an opportunity to sit down, to go to a base, to meet with families, to meet with service members, to sit down with our veterans – because we would think differently about our challenges as individuals.

The Army was always big on Clausewitz, the Prussian; the Navy on Alfred Thayer Mahan, the American; and the Air Force on Giulio Douhet, the Italian. But the Marine Corps has always been more Eastern-oriented. I am much more comfortable with Sun-tzu and his approach to warfare.

Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you’ve got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it’s a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way.

Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?

You never know with these things when you’re trying something new what can happen. This is all experimental.

The risk for me would be in not taking one – that’s the only thing that’s really risky for me.

Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who are attempting to go around the world in balloons are effectively flying in experimental craft because these craft cannot be tested.

Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That’s the biggest risk I’ve taken so far.

In crises the most daring course is often safest.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New, but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary man or woman. But if the church stays wrapped up in itself, it will age. And if I had to choose between a wounded church that goes out on to the streets and a sick, withdrawn church, I would definitely choose the first one.

Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it.

There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.

Live dangerously and you live right.

Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.

There is always safety in valor.

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

We can have no ’50-50′ allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.

It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.

Kindness and faithfulness keep a king safe, through kindness his throne is made secure.

Cameras aren’t guns. They can’t really hurt you.

It’s easier to aim to please and say what others want to hear than to form an opinion and fight for it, even if it means taking a risk or losing your job.

In too much of the West, everyone wants the guarantee of safety, and never having to make any decisions.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?

An idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.

Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to its dictates.

You have an impeccable argument if you said that Singapore, Hong Kong, and Tokyo are food capitals. They have a maximum amount of great stuff to eat in the smallest areas.

The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.

I take risks because I get bored. And I get bored very easily.