“Don't get it right - get it WRITTEN!”

“I don't care about the little guy. I just hate the big guy. I hate big smug people who think they can get away with things.”

“I don't want to put the world to rights... I just don't like people who put the world to wrongs.”

“Evaluate. Long experience had taught me to evaluate and assess. When the unexpected gets dumped on you, don’t waste time. Don’t figure out how or why it happened. Don’t recriminate. Don’t figure out whose fault it is. Don’t work out how to avoid the same mistake next time. All of that you do later. If you survive.”

“I had a teacher once, grade school somewhere. Philippines, I think, because she always wore a big white hat. So it was somewhere hot. I was always twice the size of the other kids, and she used to say to me: count to ten before you get mad, Reacher. And I've counted way past ten on this one. Way past.”

“No, I'm a man with a rule. People leave me alone, I leave them alone. If they don't, I don't.”

“Now they broke my toothbrush, I don't own anything.”