Abraham Lincoln Quotes

The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.

As an actor, you generally don't get to choose what projects you are part of, so I've been very fortunate that 'The Book of Mormon' was something I got to be part of. I don't want to be lofty, but it was groundbreaking, in many ways, for musical theater, so that was really thrilling to be part of.

Well, I've just gotten accustomed to just being in Canada for five and a half months a year.

Thus, the struggle for peace includes the struggle for freedom and justice for the masses of all countries.

Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.

Men lie the most. Men lie all the time.

What's great about musicals is their energy and go-for-brokeness - stopping the story to sing and dance. How can you not love that?

I want people to know that I won't just assume that people will like my music.

My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that's never been explained.

The American people can be - and deserve to be - assured that actions taken in their defense are consistent with their values and their laws.

The problem with comedy audiences - it's like the Coliseum - when they see someone struggling, they don't feel altruistic towards them. They feel slightly repulsed by it.

You want to find a place where, because of your skills, you can make an impact.

Those who perpetrate fraud against our financial institutions will be met with the full force of law enforcement.

In terms of popular cinema, 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is as near perfection as I can think of.

A lion runs the fastest when he is hungry.

I think Latin has some logic to it and there was a discipline.

The current institutionally provided retirement plans will not cover people's needs upon retirement.

I knew him, but never felt that I got really close to Saint Laurent. But who really did? Betty Catroux, maybe.

It's one thing you aspire to: someday, you'll be able to write a book.

In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.