But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.

It is often possible to decide the issue of a battle merely by making an unexpected shift of one's main weight.

My mom's one of 13 siblings, and they all got six kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton.

First and foremost I feel I am a child of God ....Today I think that everything matters, but like a nice game of relative importance and value, certainly not absolute like conversion.

Your problems with me are not my problems, those are your problems.

Aristotle and Plato considered Greeks so innately superior to barbarians that slavery is justified so long as the master is Greek and the slave barbarian.

I have to work really hard, eight shows a week, to get a nice check as an actor. But when I write a play, and it's a - knock wood - hit, the checks come in for many years.

At 3 years old, I was telling people that I was going to be a star. I never had a plan B. And I've never compromised my integrity to get what I have.

You don't read scripture, scripture reads you.

I have a handful of people that I have dated that I don't follow, but I will go and see what they are up to.

Change in the societies at the very bottom must come predominantly from within; we cannot impose it on them.

There is a time and a place for things. Sometimes one needs to put a filter on oneself. That can be a good thing.