All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

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.

Silence is fine if I am on my own but it's not overly sociable if my husband is around!

The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.

You have to have the essential pleasure of making a movie. It's such a huge factor and adventure for a director because you really are the leader and the captain.

Countries around the world are celebrating new oil and natural gas discoveries that hold the promise of greater prosperity for their citizens.

I can't get enough adventure," Magnus said lightly. "And adventure cannot get enough of me.

Series of syllables which have been learned by heart, forgotten, and learned anew must be similar as to their inner conditions at the times when they can be recited.

There is no post-9/11. Everything from now until the end of time is post-9/11.

If people call me a Sunday painter I'm a Sunday painter who paints every day of the week!

I have been rich, and I have been broke. Some of it is my fault for choosing bad management and making bad investments. But that is life - we all take risks.

I am officially a doctor, and believe it or not, I can save lives and tune certain instruments and can beat peasants with a stick.