Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold and from stake to stake.

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.

Every man meets his Waterloo at last.

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.

The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.

When it comes to education all obstacles must be removed. This must become a priority for humanity.

To be restored to Christ is to know a fulfilled life

It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realized I'd become an actor.

Falsehood is the jockey of misfortune.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

Movies and life become a little more symmetrical when you start asking for and looking for connections.

My boyfriend is not a swimmer!

If you wish to persuade me, you must think my thoughts, feel my feelings, and speak my words.

I'm never aiming to make a movie like someone else's movie, but in order to describe a movie to someone else who hasn't seen it, you usually have to reference things they have seen.

Cricket is the only game that you can actually put on weight when playing.