You definitely put a bit of yourself in every character, and you always have to have an understanding and empathy for the person that you play.
True heroism consists in rising superior to misfortune.
The world soffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people.
Lies circle the earth while Truth is still trying to put on its shoes.
If you build an army of 100 lions and their leader is a dog, in any fight, the lions will die like a dog. But if you build an army of 100 dogs and their leader is a lion, all dogs will fight as a lion
Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less concerned about the later than the former. Space we can recover, lost time never.
Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent.
The education of our people should be a lifelong process by which we continue to feed new vigor into the lifestream of the Nation through intelligent, reasoned decisions. Let us not think of education only in terms of its costs, but rather in terms of the infinite potential of the human mind that can be realized through education. Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our Nation.
I don't have any interest to go to Israel. I don't think I'd ever have a cause to go.
Our rule was that we [with Kate DiCamillo] would write everything together, literally every word.
The religion of tomorrow will be less concerned with the dogmas of theology and more concerned with the social welfare of humanity.