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.

Silence is safer than speech.

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

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

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 And if I had to choose between a wounded church that goes out on to the streets and a sick, withdrawn church, I would definitely choose the first one.

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

Well, I think that there’s a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you’re likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own.

The coward only threatens when he is safe.

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.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can’t see from the center.

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

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

There is no way I would ask others to go on a Virgin Galactic flight if I didn’t feel it was safe enough for myself.

I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.

I try to encourage all my teammates, and I sure hope that some day all athletes – my kids, high school kids – get the same level of care I get. Because you can play for a long period of time without having knee replacements, without having all the major head trauma that people are dealing with.

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

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.

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

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn’t willing to.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

Fortune befriends the bold.

Man, wear your seat belts. That’s all I can tell everybody. You never know.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

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.

Trash talk? Smack talk? This is an American term that makes me laugh. I simply speak the truth. I’m an Irish man.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

Yes, we’ve still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.

To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.

A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you’re prepared to take the risk of trying them out.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

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

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

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.

Basically what I’m trying to tell you is that it’s almost impossible to drive a jet ski at night time unless you’re in a city with lights lit up so you can navigate. Besides being pitch black, that water turn black at night. Listen, I don’t recommend it.

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.

Political courage is not political suicide.

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

If you’re too free, you’re like the way Hong Kong is now. It’s very chaotic.

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

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!

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

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.

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

The formula ‚Two and two make five‘ is not without its attractions.

Precaution is better than cure.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

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.

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.

My doorman is more important to me than any head of any company. He keeps us safe.

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.

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

I don’t think anybody in America ought to be scared.