The public history of all countries, and all ages, is but a sort of mask, richly colored. The interior working of the machinery must be foul.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

Try and fail,but don't fail to try.

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.

Whoever tells the best story wins.

I inhabit a weak, frail, decayed tenement; battered by the winds and broken in on by the storms, and, from all I can learn, the landlord does not intend to repair.

America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.

I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music.

The Sermon on the Mount commands me to lay up for myself treasures, not upon earth, but in Heaven. My hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ.

I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.

If I had known how good cooked meat tastes, I would have breathed my fire on all those pigs before I ate them.

A road trip with your ancient mommy is just what you need after falling off a mountain and having your soul ripped out by your best friend.

As the tech industry continues to grow and sprout successful startups across the country, it is important that we understand our responsibility to affect positive change in our communities.

Paris is beautiful, but nothing beats home.

I never rehearse scenes with the whole ensemble, because I need to preserve some surprise. Instead, I work with the cast individually on their characters.

In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.

I was the kind of child who always poked around wherever there was fear: to see what kind of a creature fear was.

It's in the present that lies the secret: if you pay attention to the present you will be able to enhance it.

There is power in well-chosen words, and often there is equal power in silence. Learning when to talk and when to listen are among the most powerful skills you can develop.

[Napoleon deployed] every available resource to inflict all-out defeats on [his] enemies.