Let the professors of Christianity recommend their religion by deeds of benevolence - by Christian meekness - by lives of temperance and holiness.
People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
Religion is many things, but one of them, surely, is a way for adults to indulge in uncritical hero worship.
The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it.
Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with it.
Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
As long as somebody finances you, can make a film and get it seen any place and in any language; then, hopefully, it's a success.
I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.
Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance.
I'm totally comfortable today with the success that Omar and 'The Wire' have brought me - living with that character, being recognized and remembered for that character.
Studio people are idiots. Until they see someone else doing it and make a success of it, they don't open their minds. Most of them are idiots.
There are so few women in general who aren't completely threatened and confused by other women's success. It's very disappointing.
I love heels, I'm telling you. When I walk in flats, I get knee pain.
When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results.
Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.
I'd hopefully work through all my issues with men first so then I'd be okay being with a woman.
Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.
I've done so many independent movies I'm sure no one will ever see, but I've loved the work.
I was in the movies. I danced, I sang, I learned to work in front of a camera. It was like being in a repertory company.
