A distinguished clergyman told me that he chose the profession of a clergyman because it afforded the most leisure for literary pursuits. I would recommend to him the profession of a governor.

If there is any hell more unprincipled than our rulers, and we, the ruled, I feel curious to see it.

I would remind my countrymen that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour.

There is no such thing as accomplishing a righteous reform by the use of 'expediency.' There is no such thing as sliding up hill. In morals, the only sliders are backsliders.

The fate of the country... does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning.

A government which deliberately enacts injustice, and persists in it, will at length ever become the laughing-stock of the world.

Now-a-days, men wear a fool's cap, and call it a liberty cap.

I believe that, in this country, the press exerts a greater and a more pernicious influence than the church did in its worst period. We are not a religious people, but we are a nation of politicians.

Those who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts.

You got to go down a lot of wrong roads to find the right one.

Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It's about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen.

On an animated movie, I'm learning as I go. There are so many details in animation. Doing the voices was the easy-part. Doing live-action, you have to be on the set, every day.

The competition is so fierce once you become an adult. I'll probably move on to something else.

There is nothing, I think, more unfortunate than to have soft, chubby, fat-looking children who go to watch their school play basketball every Saturday and regard that as their weeks exercise.

As far as carrying the torch for the years to come, I don't know. I just want to be the best basketball player I can be.

Greenmail, in case you're wondering, is when a company pays a raider a premium for his holdings-if he'll go away. What I think it really is is blackmail in a pin-striped suit.

Don't be bitter. Remember Lot's wife when they kill me, and they surely will. You have to use all of your energy to do what it is you have to do. [To his wife Betty Shabazz]

In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.

His perfect kingdom of killing, suffering and pain Demands devotion, atrocities done in his name.