I feel rather like a rabbit that has taken a fox for its pupil.

Thank you, sir, but I am perfectly content being the bride of death.

Real power... comes not from hate, but from truth.

Any man who has seen the face of death knows better than to seek him out a second time.

Contrary to his infallibly "honest" image, Abe wasn't above lying so long as it served a noble purpose.

Movie characters rarely get to think out loud or talk very much about their emotions. Instead they have to, very briefly, show their feelings through their action or through dialog.

Father may have been wanting in some things, but here he was masterful. Night upon night, I marveled at his power to hold listeners in rapt attention. He could tell a story with such detail, such flourish, that afterwards a man could swear it had been his own memory, and not a tale at all.