The core of man's spirit comes from new experiences.

(looking at remains of a battle) I love it! God help me, I love it so. I love it more than my life.

Often the most barbaric atrocities occur when both sides proclaim themselves freedom fighters.

If you don't have money at my age, you're not even in the game anymore. You're just a pasture animal waiting for the abattoir.

I read somewhere... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong... but to feel strong.

Lars: Well, Bianca can help you. She's got nurse's training. Gus: No she doesn't. That's because she's a plastic...thing. Lars: That's amazing. Did you hear that? Bianca said God made her to help people.

Katsumoto: Do you believe a man can change his destiny? Algren: I think a man does what he can, until his destiny is revealed to him.

When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God's light shines on you.

Miranda (to Daniel):  I bring home a birthday cake and a few gifts; you bring home the Goddamn San Diego Zoo. And I have to clean up after it!

Give George a headline, and he's good for another 30 miles.

Half my life is over, and I have nothing to show for it...I’m a smudge of excrement on a tissue, surging out to sea with a ton of raw sewage.

I've seen much of the rest of the world. It is brutal and cruel and dark, Rome is the light.

Quintus: "People should know when they're beaten!" Maximus: "Would you, Quintus? Would I?"

No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. You win a war by making the other poor bastard die for his country!