Honesty has always been very important to me.

I remember the first time I put on the Army uniform. I just felt like a totally different person - I felt proud.

I could be, you know, the person that shows little kids that giving up isn't something that you should do.

The truth is always more heroic than the hype.

I try to dream about peaceful things, beaches, that is what I cannot understand. Why are they chasing me?

I grew up in Palestine, West Virginia, which is mostly a farming community; there aren't a lot of jobs.

I'm not about to take credit for something I didn't do. I did not shoot - not a round, nothing. I went down praying to my knees - that's the last thing I remember.

Certain days I think definitely because we went in there and we got Saddam and that was our mission. On other days, we lost so many lives and so many brothers and sisters...on that aspect, no.

I have repeatedly said, when asked, that if the stories about me helped inspired our troops and rally a nation, then perhaps there was some good.

The whole idea that the rescue was staged or the soldiers were shooting blanks, that's just obvious stuff. Why would you do that in the middle of a war? It's just crazy.

The nurses at the hospital tried to soothe me, and they even tried unsuccessfully at one point to return me to Americans.

God gave you the sea, but you still have to fish for yourself.

A ‘normal person’ is what is left after society has squeezed out all unconventional opinions and aspirations out of a human being.

TODAY IS A GREAT DAY TO MAKE ART.

I was going to be a teacher. I was applying to graduate school when I got the call to do 'Same Love, ' actually. I was gonna go to Boston University for my masters in teaching.

Scandal breeds hatred; hatred begets division; division makes faction, and faction brings ruin.

Most comedy is not very ambitious. You probably can't name more than a handful of comedies that would qualify for Best Picture.

God's not afraid of a mess. He wants to do a cleaning.

Lion chasers are humble enough to let God call the shots and brave enough to follow where He leads.

I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.

It's tough to fully believe in yourself sometimes.