Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

Definitely people like Kanye, inspired me to work hard. He's somebody who I've seen put that grind in over the years.

I have real admiration for chefs who can maintain an edge and find new inspiration in their cooking after many years.

On prohibiting anybody from learning anything: Why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

You're going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.

When I was 27 years old, I organized legal aid clinics to help low-income seniors. It was a life-altering experience.

Being in prison for seven years was like being in an army that never drilled, never deployed, and only fought itself.

Most gay bashers will be wearing what gay people had on four years earlier - only in polyester with a Penney's label.

I would like to become the prime minister, do the job for two years, and then leave and devote myself to public work.

Kobe [Bryant] had the biggest contract for a high school kid. He was the first one to get more than a million a year.

When you're seventeen years old, green and inexperienced, you're grateful for any guidance and direction you can get.

I didn't sound anything like Capote at the screen test. It was more like Bob Dylan. In his early years. With the flu.

I’ve been calling for more troops for over two years, along with John McCain and others subsequent to my saying that.

You know, the murder - the number of murders in our country this year [2016], went up more than they have in 45 years.

Fifteen years ago I walked out of a production of one of my plays at the RSC because I decided it was a waste of time.

I started out coming out of college, I had my realtor's license and I did real estate full time for a number of years.

It's very hard for someone who makes $1,000 a year or some who makes less than $1 a day to care about the environment.

The first 50 years are for learning, and the second 50 years are for living. Life just begins when you're in your 50s.

It's very weird because the 'It' guy usually is not the 'It' guy next year or even a guy that anyone is talking about.

Mark McGwire is thirty-four years old. I'm twenty-nine. He's probably a little bit tired and I'm just having some fun.

I love working out. I mean, I've been doing it for about 20 years every day of my entire life. So I enjoy working out.

Kara do you love Brad?' All my heart.' Then how can you let him leave next year?' I guess love isn’t enough sometimes.

But what could I do? Be stupid for a while? I wasn't sure I knew how, even after so many years of careful observation.

It isn't a coincidence that prayer was commanded right after the year of sadness. The prayer was the greatest comfort.

As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years.

The Hollywood Foreign Press have just given me a time out from my 20-year midlife crisis. My heartfelt thanks to them.

Everyone keeps saying I’ll pick it up. But what if I don’t? I did algebra for three years, and I never picked that up.

In Nigeria, Hillary Clinton amazingly fought for two years to keep an Al-Qaeda affiliate off the terrorist watch list.

I had been in a Shakespeare company for three years and done a lot of Shakespeare. That was fun. That was interesting.

As a civil rights activist of the past 40 years, I cannot support a show that disrespects those beliefs and practices.

I love living in Utah. I was born here but raised in L.A., but we decided about 13, 14 years ago to come here to Utah.

In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.

I'm the luckiest man in the world - performing 500 shows a year and loving what I do - illusion IS my day to day life.

I love anybody funny. I think my ten-year-old sister is really funny. She makes me laugh way more than most people do.

Venice, Italy, survives 365 days out of every year in water; New Orleans can survive a few days of water if it has to.

In 30 years of travel and training leaders -164 nations - I've never met anyone who didn't need massive doses of love.

Your life at this exact moment is a direct result of choices you made once upon a time. Thirty minutes or 30 year ago.

I enjoyed the fans thoroughly, and they were always helpful. They were the reason that I tried so hard over the years.

From New Year's on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining.

I fear that within 10 years gays, trade union activists and left wing politicians will be led off to the gas chambers.

Law Number XXXIX: Never promise to complete any project within six months of the end of the year, in either direction.

Mankind's greatest error, the biggest deception of the past thousand years is this: to confuse poverty with stupidity.

I am 36 years old, I can't change. I have tried, trust me, but I can't. It's nice to get over yourself and just do it.

A thousand years may elapse before there shall appear another man with a power of versification equal to that of Pope.

I lost my wife Barbara to cancer few years ago. I would give whatever time I have left to spend one more day with her.

The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the right hon. Gentleman for four and a half years.

It’s hard for me to imagine a life without playing cricket because it’s all I have ever done since I was 11 years old.

Many religions over the years have suggested that when a woman is menstruating, she should be avoided and not touched.

I've got to learn French because I've been going there for years and still, the only words I know are the swear words.

For three years, the 'Meistersinger' score was a ball and chain to me. It went with me to every city and concert hall.

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