A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded.

I will prepare, and someday my chance will come.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

Many of us are confessional giants but ethical midgets.

With me every peep becomes a trumpet solo.

I read everything of Ray Bradbury when I was 12 or 13, and I think that's the most effective time to read Bradbury. He built such a moral world, where you have to make decisions and grow up.

The advice that I wish I would have given myself is to not care about what other people are thinking.

My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist.

Strive to be authentic all the time. That's sort of my philosophy on life, which applies to acting.

Millions of human vermin swarm sweating along the night-arched cavernous roads. (Happily rapid chemical processes will disintegrate them all.

Fall down nine times, get up ten.

Work with people who believe what you believe.

Give me, Lord, neither poverty nor riches.