An action comitted in anger is an action doomed to failure.

If you're afraid - don't do it, - if you're doing it - don't be afraid!

The strength of a wall is neither greater nor less than the courage of the men who defend it.

Remember, you have no companions but your shadow

All who surrender will be spared; whoever does not surrender but opposes with struggle and dissension, shall be annihilated.

Come and sip from the cup of destruction.

A leader can never be happy until his people are happy.

Conquering the world on horseback is easy; it is dismounting and governing that is hard.

It is not sufficient that I succeed - all others must fail.

There is no good in anything until it is finished.

Even when a friend does something you do not like, he continues to be your friend.

I'm not mean, I'm honest. Nobody is ever straightforward. But sometimes people need to hear the truth.

We can only climb the mountains because there’s a valley that makes the mountain a mountain.

There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity; both being equally subject to change.

The trouble with talking about irony is, it's such a slippery thing that the second you start talking about it, you're a better example of it than you are an analyst.

To me, young has no meaning. It's something you can do nothing about, nothing at all. But youth is a quality. And if you have it, you never lose it.

So then you’re free?’ ‘Yes, I’m free,’ said Karl, and nothing seemed more worthless than his freedom.

We are all snobs of the Infinite, parvenus of the Eternal.

Football is a violent sport. Somebody's going to get hurt. It's the game. Just hopefully, you're on the good side of it.

There was never any question with me as to which I would choose, my boy or my work. I had to have both.

I've done other things, but it always seems like my sci-fi projects have been what people respond to the most, because those fans are extraordinary, so passionate.