We cannot escape history.

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.

It is difficult for flowers to hide their beauty

Each day I connect with my inner being. Doing so, makes navigating through life so much easier.

Every man's island, Jean Louise, every man's watchman, is his conscience. There is no such thing as a collective conscience.

I have been in a lot of movies, but none of them are critics' darlings, you might say.

A spoiled saint, a Pharisee, an inquisitor, or a magician, makes better sport to Hell than a mere common tyrant or debauchee.

China is more prosperous than before. The people have better lives but they are not happy and confident because the scars are still there.

The State Department is essentially... I was going to use the word useless. But I don't know if that's correct.

I know nothing about Christianity, nothing about football, and I'm not a Republican.

My influences change all the time; they have to remain current, because they're the things that capture your imagination and make you want to go into the studio.