It's important. One of the principles in the United States is civilian control of the military.

We're going to take out seven countries in 5 years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.

It doesn't take any more energy to create a big dream than it does to create a little one.

Well, I don't think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be president.

Nothing could be a more serious violation of public trust than to consciously make a war based on false claims.

Europe and America must act together in the face of evil. It's high time for Americans and Europeans to restore that unity and be able to take actions collectively together.

The more Marines I have around, the better I like it.

I have grown up with guns all my life, but people who like assault weapons they should join the United States Army, we have them.

You have to be true to what you believe in and do your duty.

I think we're at risk with our democracy. I think we're dealing with the most closed, imperialistic, nastiest administration in living memory. They even put Richard Nixon to shame.

You have to take a plan that might work and make it work

I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Concentrate on the goodness in the other, rather than the difference.

Love is beautiful, A beautiful deception.One falls in itTo deceive the other

Regardless of your ethnicity or anything, if you do great work, people will notice and you'll get hired.

I started out in stand-up when I was 18, which is really masochistic, and I did it really till I started going in movies. I did it for about three years out in LA.

I really try to focus on my books and readers.

The belief that one's suffering has a greater cosmic purpose, and is thus more exciting and more noble, well, it made a lot of sense to me.

Successful people do what is right no matter how they feel, and by doing right, they feel good.

Compassion in evangelical churches is out of balance. When I talk about it, I get a lot of glazed expressions.

Modern man worships at the temple of science, but science tells him only what is possible, not what is right.