I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.

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 creative mind can turn chaos into a master piece and call it Art.

The homeland might be lacking snakes, but it held its share of venom.

Dad worked his entire career as an aviation technician. Mom was a legal secretary who became a teacher. We lived a simple American life.

I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.

For the longest time in Denmark I didn't want to say what I was politically. I thought it was irrelevant.

Acting is a tough business, and you need to be in good shape mentally and physically.

Put even the plainest woman into a beautiful dress and unconsciously she will try to live up to it.

The characters [of The Tempest] have always been favorites of mine. It is one of his meditations on art - what it does.

Space doesn't just encompass the sublime and the ridiculous. It erases the line between.