Before you are five and twenty you must establish a character that will serve you all your life.

Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.

I wish you had one of those fairy telescopes that can look into the hearts and souls of people a thousand leagues off, then you might see how much you possess my mind.

Check and restrain anger. Never make any determination until you find it has entirely subsided.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing - the ability to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.

World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimisation.

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

I think it would count more, if we did less personal appearances.

Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.

You think that adulthood will hit and you'll suddenly be more capable. But that doesn't happen, ever, does it?

When I'm on an adult set and I'm in a scene, I am myself. I'm not acting. I am playing to the camera, definitely, but I am myself.

Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.