Lincoln on Grant: "He makes things get. Wherever he is, he makes things move.

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.

If you doubt a man's ability, you limit their potential.

Fortune and Love befriend the bold.

During 30 years of earning my daily bread as a writer I have learned many lessons about our craft. The most significant of those lessons is that I still have many lessons to learn about out craft.

One of my favorite things in watching an actor is feeling, The story is safe in your hands. I can lean back and trust you with this.

I've gotten used to not looking too far into the future; it's best when you can begin each day anew.

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.

I'm trying to use Palestine as a microcosm of the world, but maybe the world is a microcosm of Palestine. We're living in a moment that has lost attachment to the ideology behind boundaries.

I am, by nature, a guitar player... I learned all of these other instruments around that, and around the theory that I built learning the guitar.

The truth, of course, is that the only necessary and sufficient condition for human beings to murder one another is the simple fact of being human.

Nothing ever happens in Mexico until it happens.