Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.

The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

Don't let a cruel word escape your mouth. There's no greater sin than breaking a heart.

It was so hard to feel safe in the world when you were a girl.

This is pity, ” he thought, and then he lifted his head in wonder. He thought that there must be something terribly wrong with a world in which this monstrous feeling is called a virtue.

I just never saw my mother in any other room but the kitchen. There were always pots going.

The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.

I never went out looking for glory.

You have to carry so many archetypes as an actor, especially as a blonde-haired, blue-eyed one.

Every sentence must do one of two things-reveal character or advance the action.

Secular music was not allowed in our household.

Most of all, I loved seeing Princess Leia strangling you at the end of Return of the Jedi.