A liar should have a good memory.

Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.

One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.

While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity is lost.

A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.

Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.

We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.

An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.

With Christ, I can endure every suffering,

I had to hope there was more to life than death. More to living than not dying.

As it turns out, there is a thing called the Internet, and stuff does go out there whether the suits like it or not.

We need to believe in a bright, compelling and sustainable future. Fear neither motivates people long-term nor brings out the best in them. Hope is a powerful motivator.

You don’t return people’s smiles—it’s perfectly clear to you that people can smile and smile and still be villains.

It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.

I knew I would always want to go on living with myself, however hollow I became, however diseased.

All spiritual acts well-pleasing unto God, as faith, repentance, obedience, are supernatural; flesh and blood revealeth not these things.

It's a very stressful thing, directing a movie. You have the budget, you have the schedule, you are in certain confines, and you have everybody giving you advice about what to do.

My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town.