Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

I will always be possessive about creative independence - why is why I can't work with stars. I don't even let actors come to the monitor and see the shot.

A high standard of living cannot remain the exclusive possession of the West - and the sooner we can help other peoples to develop their resources, raise their living standards, and strengthen their national independence, the safer the world will be for us all.

Look, half the men who signed the Declaration of Independence were either in debt or bankrupt. The remaining half, most of them lost all their possessions. The only reason Monticello didn't get burned to the ground was that the British patrol missed the road.

The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men.

I became an actor in that important drama with an inflexible resolution to persevere through the last scene, when we might be permitted and acknowledged to enjoy what we had so nobly declared we would possess, or lose with our lives - Freedom and Independence!

The independence of the United States is not only more precious to ourselves but to the world than any single possession.

We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.

Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.

Possessing a healthy imagination is a necessary ingredient for creativity.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Art Modell was a visionary, a deal-maker and a friend. And he possessed a marvelous sense of humor.

Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you.

Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure.

The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.

The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.

Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

One of my favorite things, as a critic, was finding books by new writers who possessed a distinctive voice and vision, an inventive gift for storytelling. I also loved immersing myself in works of nonfiction that taught me something about the world, that made the past come alive or shed light on hidden corners of history or the news.