Cowgirl Courage isn't the lack of fear, but the courage to take action in the face of fear.

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one

Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.

A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today.

Mr. Blair, I look upon secession as anarchy. If I owned the four millions of slaves in the South, I would sacrifice them all to the Union; but how can I draw my sword upon Virginia, my native State?

There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil.

A land without memories is a people without liberty.

Remember, we are all one country now. Dismiss from your mind all sectional feeling, and bring them up to be Americans.

I have always observed that wherever you find the negro, everything is going down around him, and wherever you find the white man, you see everything around him improving.

You cannot change any society unless you take responsibility for it, unless you see yourself as belonging to it and responsible for changing it.

Everybody wants happiness, and nobody wants pain, but you can't have a rainbow without a little rain.

I suppose you cannot hold on to old things just for the sake of holding on.

Don't try to provoke me, you won't win because of few words... I will be just quite because you are under my level!

For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.

Without Divine assistance I can not succeed; with it I can not fail.

People say that to me and I think what unites all my characters is that they are hurt; it's most accurate to say I play characters that are hurt but are responding to their environment.

Why are we ignoring the rest of the world? We need to have a fair and global response to migration.

I would be a pastor. It is something I think about doing when my playing days are over.

Management is not being brilliant. Management is being conscientious.

The hour that burst the spirit's sleep.

We must make a radical turn, at 360 degrees.