Wharton thought no one could have freedom, but James knew no one wanted freedom.

I am who I am because the tears of my past have watered the magnificence of my present.

There's no shame in fear. But understand this - the coward is ruled by fear, while the hero rides it like a wild stallion.

They've hit us and we've got to hit back hard, and I'm not just talking about the terrorists.

Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.

I didn't go to acting school, so it was great to be able to rehearse for a month or two, to workshop, and be with a director who even gave me acting exercises.

The stage calls my name.

I don't want to be like Europe. I want to be like America.

For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.

thought I was doing two things. One is inquiring into the phenomenon of revelation, if you are not a religious person. But, clearly, it's a sincere phenomenon.

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.