Everyone, rich or poor, deserves a shelter for the soul.

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.

If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.

It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

Ever Tried. Ever Failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail.

There's never an end for the sea.

Every child has a dream, to pursue the dream is in every child's hand to make it a reality. One's invention is another's tool.

Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.

The country shall be independent, and we will be satisfied with nothing short of it.

A true patriot would keep the attention of his fellow citizens awake to their grievances, and not allow them to rest till the causes of their just complaints are removed.

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level ofthinking we were at when we created them. - Albert Einstein

I believe books should be like a prime rib steak ~ good and thick.

I suppose that I did for myself what psychoanalysts do for their patients. I expressed some very long felt and deeply felt emotion. And in expressing it I explained it and then laid it to rest.

You cannot dream yourself into a character you must hammer and forge one for yourself.

Necessity is the ethnicity of truth.

I wanted to be a lot of things. There were a million things I wanted to do. I still do. Acting is one of the good ways of doing it you know, because you can be all those things.

Tolerance and understanding won't 'trickle down' in our society any more than wealth does.

Unlike modern man, who dreams of the world he will make, pre-modern man dreamed of the world he left.

I had met far more discrimination because I am a woman than because I am black.

So frequently we mistakenly believe that our children need more things, when in reality their silent pleadings are simply for more of our time.