"The U.S. military is so far behind the rest of our society."

“Seeking happiness in material things is a sure way of being unhappy.”

“One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 27, 2013

“With all the efforts made by modern society to nurture and educate the young, how stupid it is to permit the mothers of young children to spend themselves in the coarser work of the world!”

“I may know that the world is an ugly place, I still don't want to see it.”

“You think history is going to remember the United States as a great democracy? No, they're going to think of us as a nation that became addicted to war. They'll call us warlords.”

“Its always great when a director is just supportive of what youre doing. Theyre not so much critiquing you but giving you more ideas, giving you tons of things to work with, making you question your character and making you think about it... and making it seem like everything is limitless. That usually helps a lot.”

“OK, so truth hurts - but what else does truth do?”

“I wait. I compose myself. My self is a thing I must now compose, as one composes a speech. What I must present is a made thing, not something born.”