America is a friend of freedom everywhere, but a custodian only of our own.

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.

It is evident as a matter of logic that, since they (world religions) disagree, not more than one of them can be true.

Envy loves to tease a man constantly playing yo-yo, which is a cherished dream man.

Innovative ideas aren't generated in structured, authoritarian environments but in an adaptive culture based on the principles of self-organization and self-discipline.

The world is going crazy, Karl. And when the world is crazy, a sane man is never okay." from The Berlin Boxing Club

If I'm successful in fooling a wire service, I don't really have to do anything else to promote the story.

I'm so not a celebrity.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk.

I've always been very interested in the visual aspect of what I do.

The biggest obstacle to creativity is breaking through the barrier of disbelief.

The fact that you can forge a twenty dollar bill doesn't prove that all twenty dollar bills are forgeries.