I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.

A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today.

Mr. Blair, I look upon secession as anarchy. If I owned the four millions of slaves in the South, I would sacrifice them all to the Union; but how can I draw my sword upon Virginia, my native State?

There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil.

A land without memories is a people without liberty.

Remember, we are all one country now. Dismiss from your mind all sectional feeling, and bring them up to be Americans.

I have always observed that wherever you find the negro, everything is going down around him, and wherever you find the white man, you see everything around him improving.

I believe it to be the duty of everyone to unite in the restoration of the country and the reestablishment of peace and harmony.

The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin which has overwhelmed all that preceded it.

So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that slavery is abolished.

In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.

We are well, ' Efuru replied. 'It is only hunger.''It is good that it is only hunger. Good health is what we pray for.

The fact that we're all different is the one thing we all have in common.

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we have been ignorant of their value.

[Shanghai Biennale] has been my attitude for as long as I've been practicing art and other cultural-related activities.

Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?

America picks up 73 percent of the cost of NATO. We're paying to protect them. Wouldn't it be nice if people would pay, and we could do things properly? That's got to change.

Evolution is a fairy tale for grown-ups.

I like to disappear in the parts I play.

I like energy. I like to feel it cracklin', I like sexual energy in a room, and I like tension.

My favorite movie is Lawrence Of Arabia. But that's a long, long movie. So although I've seen it several times, it's not as fun as Jaws.