The nourishment from barbecue is palatable.

May God save the country, for it is evident that the people will not.

It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.

The law is the only sure protection of the weak, and the only efficient restraint upon the strong.

Church and state should be separate, not only in form, but fact - religion and politics should not be mingled.

Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom.

The man who can look upon a crisis without being willing to offer himself upon the altar of his country is not for public trust.

It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.

Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom. Our own free institutions were not the offspring of our revolution. They existed before.

Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other.

God knows that I detest slavery, but it is an existing evil ... and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed by the Constitution.

Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong able alert men go after opportunity.

A good example has twice the value of good advice

Im from Connecticut. My Mom is an army brat, and my Dad is a navy brat. My childhood was fun. My parents are still together. My childhood was pretty carefree.

The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.

Let your emotions come out. If your behavior is flat, your game will be flat, too.

It turns out that, somehow, there are a tremendous number of things to be optimistic about.

I wish that every director was as interested in doing as much in camera and with physical objects as much as possible as J.J. Abrams is.

In this life, no matter what anyone promises you, what allegiances of love or fealty they swear or what gods they pray to, you will never have more than what you have at this moment.

I'm always searching for that element of discovery, whether I'm making music, or just generally.

A beautiful woman moved in next door. So I went over and returned a cup of sugar. She said, "You didn't borrow this." I said, " I will!"