And upon this act [Emancipation Proclamation]...I invoke...the gracious favor of Almighty God.

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.

What was and what may be lie, like children whose faces we cannot see, in the arms of silence. All we have is here, now.

The old man smiled. 'I shall not die of a cold, my son. I shall die of having lived.

The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there and stand still. It takes courage and guts to step out of your mind frame and depict something.

By endurance we conquer.

We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be.

Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

Charm is a product of the unexpected.

I had this vivid image of myself at the age of 60 looking back on my life and truly regretting the fact that I hadn't tried to be an actor

Not even your love could withhold you from fulfilling your own personal legend.

Everyone thinks their baby is a genius. People find it delightfully refreshing when I tell them, My baby? Totally average. Like, 100 percent average.