Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.

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.

The story it told was unremarkable: a tale of love found and lost- the oldest story in the world. The only story.

The films that are interesting you never can stop... there's no end point, you just keep thinking and musing about it.

There is the in-breath and there is the out-breath, and too often we feel like we have to exhale all the time. The inhale is absolutely essential - and then you can exhale.

The more distant and distinct the relationship between two realities that are brought together, the more powerful the image.

Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.

It is better to be fully present and rested and engaged for one thing than rushed, distracted, and scattered for ten.

I'm not one to be messed with. I can be bad when it needs to happen.

I can say that paintings are prayers, they have to do with anything that makes you wish for more that what everyday life provides.

An artist is the magician put among men to gratify - capriciously - their urge for immortality.