Chuck Norris

“As six-time world karate champion and then a movie star, I put too much trust in who I was, what I could do, and what I acquired. I forgot how much I needed others and especially God.”

“In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tail is wagging the dog. We've got to make a change there and get it back to where the teachers have control of the classrooms.”

“Between income taxes and employment taxes, capital gains taxes, estate taxes, corporate taxes, property taxes, Social Security taxes, we're being taxed to death.”

“There's a lot to be done; I just see a total moral decay in our society.”

“A small behavioral change can also lead to embracing a wider checklist of healthier choices.”

“My biggest worry is that Obama says he's going to tax the upper 5 percent by raising their taxes by 20 percent. But among that 5 percent are the corporations that are hiring middle-class Americans.”

“There's no reason we can't all live harmoniously together, and that's what I would say to the head of Iran.”

“Nutritionists have known for some time now that in order to get people to change what they eat, we need to provide them with more access to affordable, healthy food as well as information on how to cook and prepare it.”

“In 1968, I fought and won the world middleweight karate championship by defeating the world's top fighters. I then held that title until 1974, when I retired undefeated.”

“There's very little proof that Obama or anyone in his administration - particularly Hillary Clinton - truly understands or believes the tenets in the U.S. Constitution or the Declaration of Independence. If they did, they would know that they are running a federal government in direct contradiction to both of those sacred documents.”

“I think I can achieve more outside the political arena.”

“I've got a bulletin for you, folks. I am no superman. I realize that now, but I didn't always.”

“Long ago made it a principle of my life to cultivate a positive frame of mind, to strive to project it and to share it with those I meet. It is a principle that has served me well.”

“In times of conflict, our citizens have always been able to rise to the challenge. Maybe no greater example of that ability is found during the onset of World War II.”

“It's important to concede that modern pesticides have helped to make farming more productive and to increase yields.”

“We either go one direction, left, which would be socialism. Or right, which would be people trying to make the money themselves.”

“While I filmed the 'Walker, Texas Ranger' series for eight and a half years, I had never had much time to read, except for screenplays of the episodes.”

“I served four years in the Air Force in South Korea, and my brother, Aaron, served in the Army there, too, on the DMZ.”

“I've always found that anything worth achieving will always have obstacles in the way and you've got to have that drive and determination to overcome those obstacles on route to whatever it is that you want to accomplish.”

“Whether we are famous or not, we all need God. We also need other people.”