All that I am my mother made me.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

Try and fail,but don't fail to try.

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.

Whoever tells the best story wins.

I inhabit a weak, frail, decayed tenement; battered by the winds and broken in on by the storms, and, from all I can learn, the landlord does not intend to repair.

America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.

I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music.

The Sermon on the Mount commands me to lay up for myself treasures, not upon earth, but in Heaven. My hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ.

I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.

Even the wisest and the best of us can be foolish occasionally.

The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans.

Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.

If one day I have to leave Barcelona, probably the first thing I will look into is Arsenal

We have to construct communities of artists because they don't naturally exist in our culture.

I never say what I mean, but I always manage to say something similar.

Messi always makes the right decision, whether it's a pass or a finish. He's a little genius.

[Screenwriting] is no more complicated than old French torture chambers, I think. It's about as simple as that.

I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate.

Let us think less of men and more of God.