Unlimited power corrupts the possessor; and this I know, that, where law ends, there tyranny begins.

Concession comes with better grace and more salutary effect from superior power.

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.

I would have it inscribed on the curtains of your bed and the walls of your chamber: "If you do not rise early you can make progress in nothing."

Where laws end, tyranny begins.

An eagerness and zeal for dispute on every subject, and with every one, shows great self-sufficiency, that never-failing sign of great self-ignorance.

Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.

The little I know of it has not served to raise my opinion of what is vulgarly called the Monied Interest; I mean, that blood-sucker, that muckworm, that calls itself the friend of government.

I know that I can save this country and that no one else can.

The atrocious crime of being a young man . . . I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny.

Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.

All I needed was the courage to be me. That courage took a lifetime to develop.

The key to life is balance, especially if you are on a ledge.

It is all about marketing; that is where the real craft comes in. The best actors do not necessarily become the biggest stars. And vice versa.

Apostolic preaching cannot be carried on unless there be apostolic prayer. Men of God, before anything else, are indispensable to the furtherance of the kingdom of God on earth.

One certainty when you travel is the moment you arrive in a foreign country, the American dollar will fall like a stone.

There is a very particular feeling I get when I have the camera in my hand, looking at an actor talk, knowing that what I’m shooting will end up on the screen.

Most of the strength and the leadership skills and the decisiveness, the resoluteness that I think America was craving from Donald Trump, from a leader, is the same in public as it is in private.

He [Donald Trump] hasn't shifted on a lot of the things that he had in common with his Republican opponents.

Alike for the nation and the individual, the one indispensable requisite is character.