Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

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.

You know, London is so sprawling, and you can sometimes forget that anybody else is on a stage anywhere else.

Opportunity looks a lot like work...

There is no rule in the pink-triangle guide to coming out that you must wear a rainbow flag cap and organise a full band parade.

The bedraggled warhorse of American blowhardism.

All our qualities, whether good or bad, are unstable and ambiguous, and almost all are at the mery of chance.

In a certain sense you deny the existence of this world. You explain life as a state of rest, a state of rest in motion.

Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.

Too many composers become involved in intellectual speculation which seems to matter more to them than the sound that comes out of all this speculation.

I look at all the things life has allowed me to do, and I feel like the luckiest person in the world.

Growing up, I had a very busy social life. It wasn't until I was a sophomore in high school that I asked Mama if I could come into the kitchen and have her teach me how to cook something.