It is vain to expect a well-balanced government without a well-balanced society.

The hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else.

The War has been waged with success, although there have been in some instances errors and misfortunes. But the heart of the nation is sounder and its hopes brighter.

We’ll never survive!” “Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has.

We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.

Not just a timely movie, a great one...Timbuktu feels at once timely and permanent, immediate and essential.

It may sound weird, but I don't really look for culture, particularly in an American city.

Imagine if you succeeded in making the world perfect for your children what a shock the rest of life would be for them.

Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut.

When dealing with the internet, I knew that people would have their own opinions, and I went into it with that in mind.

I had a one day slip, Matt. So what do you do? You get up and you go on, and you try not to do it again.

I only have one obsession - not to be boring.

Follow your heart, minute by minute and day by day. Let the course of the river run as it will, instead of tying yourself up in fears that you may never realize" Wulfgar