Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it.

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.

I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.

What you do defines who your are. Remember to be the best at what you do. You develop higher confidence from doing what you do excellently.

How are the mighty fallen!

Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.

Certain sincerely devout and spiritually advanced people believe that the God of their understanding helps them find parking places and gives them advice on Mass. Lottery numbers.

I'd love to do an action movie. Something with lots of stunts. Anything fast and dangerous and involving guns.

All that changing of plates and flapping of napkins while you wait 40 minutes for your food.

All my roots are Broadway. I got my Equity Card doing a Broadway show, and my first love is theater.

Hope and belief. I'd always wanted hope, but never believed that I could have such an adventure on my own. That I could own it. And love it. But it happened.

I don't know why I told this story. I could just as well have told another. Perhaps some other time I'll be able to tell another. Living souls, you will see how alike they are.