Reflection makes men cowards.
A strategy would be how do we mobilize support for the remnants of the Syrian Free Army, and it might require combat troops to inspire an international effort.
I`m the tortoise in the race, but I`m a joyful tortoise.
Donald [Trump], you're not going to be able to insult your way to the presidency. That's not going to happen.
I'm not an expert on the ways of Washington [but] it makes no sense to me that we're not funding control of our border.
By blaming others, we fail to find the real solutions to our problems and we do not carry out our own responsibilities.
I do have the strength. Leadership, leadership is not about attacking people and disparaging people. Leadership is about creating a serious strategy to deal with the threat of our time.
You know how sometimes you meet writers that are so full of themselves? They feel really proud that they wrote something. But what they don't understand - and I like to tell this to writers - is that writing is like fishing. It's just like fishing. If you don't fish that often, you're not going to catch that many fish.
I've been a writer for a long time but I kind of had to get rid of a lot of the things I learned in Hollywood but I kept some of them too. And things I kept were: don't be precious, kill your darlings is always good, give it dynamics - you don't want it to be all joyful, all sad.
To change the way you see things is already to change things themselves.
Thoughts are just what is. They appear. They're innocent. They're not personal.