Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.

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.

Whoever doubt is in state of delusion.

Dune was a world of paradox now—a world under siege, yet the center of power. To come under siege, he decided, was the inevitable fate of power.

Shakespeare's work had a liberating influence.

Memory is not a simple replay. The bits of information that we recover from the past are often influenced by our knowledge, beliefs and feelings.

She is free not by disobeying the rules but by obeying them.

What does it profit a 78-year-old woman to sit around the pool in a bikini if she cannot feed herself?

We've never lost an American in space, we're sure as hell not gonna lose one on my watch! Failure is not an option.

Read between the lines.Then meet me in the silence if you can.

I didn't go out looking for negative characters; I went out looking for people who have a struggle and a fight to tackle. That's what interests me.

There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul!