History is the queen of the humanities. It teaches wisdom and humility, and it tells us how things change through time.

The relationship between [John] Adams and [Tomas] Jefferson was extraordinary. They differed on every conceivable issue, except on the Revolution and the love of their country.

[Benjamin] Franklin may be a great philosopher, [John Adams] told his diary in 1779, but "as a Legislator in America he has done very little."

By 1782 [John Adams] had come to feel for [Benjamin] Franklin "no other sentiments than Contempt or Abhorrence."

If history teaches anything, it teaches humility.

Americans, [John Adams] wrote in 1780, believed that their "revolution is as much for the benefit of the generality of Mankind in Europe, as for their own."

More than any other figure in our history [Tomas] Jefferson is responsible for the idea of American exceptionalism.

[Tomas] Jefferson believed that the United States was a chosen nation with a special responsibility to spread democracy around the world.

It was [John's Adams] Massachusetts constitution if anything that influenced people.

[John Adams' writings] had indicted the United States for slavishly copying the English constitution by erecting bicameral legislatures in their state constitutions, most drafted in 1776.

I think [John] Adams was correct when he said that his May resolutions were "an Epocha, a decisive Event," and tantamount to a declaration of independence.

I feel a warmth within, as if sunshine has flooded my soul.

Beckon The Sea, I'll Come To The....Shed Seven Tears, Perchance Seven Years....

But there was nothing else she could be right now except strong.

To be fully human is perhaps why I'm Christian, because I see in the life of Jesus a way of being fully human.

I can act. I've been acting for a long time, but like anything else, don't nobody owe you nothing. You've go to pay your dues. You go from A to Z; you don't go from M to Z.

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication.

I may not look it when I'm playing, but I think I'm a fun guy to hang with when I'm relaxing.

There is a lot of hype about drama school, I think.

I don't want to be a spokesperson.

The difficulty with telling stories about real people is you have to find a way of mixing yourself into the matter.