Freedom is being allowed to think your own thoughts and live your own life.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.

No responsibility of government is more fundamental than the responsibility of maintaining the highest standard of ethical behavior for those who conduct the public business.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Don't pray for an easy life, pray to be a stronger man.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

God not only gives His creatures being and existence, but also, and at every moment, upholds and sustains them in being.

...the making of stories is only one part of my craft -mainly, I'm a heart whisperer...

He who grows not in the knowledge of Jesus, refuses to be blessed.

Kurt [Cobain], from the moment he could hold a paintbrush in his hand, was painting. And from the moment he could hold a guitar, he was playing

The great purpose in life is to take your destiny out of the hands of others.

I'm never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.

If you're a serious actor, you wouldn't put yourself up for one of those shows in case you got bumped off the first week and all your colleagues saw it.

The years leech at a man's memories, even those he has vowed never to forget.

To many people, dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles.

Directing is a tremendous art.