The stage and screen are canvases, and each role is a stroke in the painting of a narrative

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the governmen

We’re stronger in the places that we’ve been broken.

I may not be as stong as I think, but I know many tricks and I have resolution.

All people see fires, storms, explosions, or landscapes; but how many feel the flames, the lightnings, the whirlwinds, or the harmony? How many have an inner beauty that tinges their melancholy?

This day I ceased to plead. I was no longer capable of lamentation. On the contrary, I felt very strong. I was the accuser, God the accused.

I would rather have a big burden and a strong back, than a weak back and a caddy to carry life’s luggage.

I have strong feelings about gun control. If there’s a gun around, I want to be controlling it.

Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how barbarically they behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that people could not refuse.

We cannot all argue, but we can all pray. We cannot all be leaders, but we can all be pleaders. We cannot all be mighty in rhetoric, but we can all be prevalent in prayer.

Man strives toward reason only so that he can make rules for himself.