Democracy is better than tyranny.

Judge of a tree by its fruit, not by its leaves.

Practice is everything. This is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect.

Freedom is a clear conscience.

He who has once made himself notorious as utterly unprincipled, is not credited even when he speaks the truth.

Pleasures are transient, honors are immortal.

Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity.

He who assists the wicked will in time rue it.

He who trusts himself for safety to the care of a wicked man, in seeking succor meets with ruin.

However exalted our position, we should still not despise the powers of the humble.

Nothing is impossible to industry (fortitude).

Guts are important. Your guts are what digest things. But it is your brains that tell you which things to swallow and which not to swallow.

Pain will leave you, when you let go

Your narrative may fail to grip if you haven't taken any care to find out how well or badly your audience member is faring (or feeling).

When you focus on life, on enjoying and connecting with other people, that's when work comes. When you focus on work, you can never work. I'm always going through waves of that.

If you worship power, you will feel weak and afraid, needing ever more power over others to keep the fear at bay.

With Connery, he does act. He is in complete command. He completely trusts the person first, then the instrument. I've worked with his son also, on a picture in Russia.

And I will never, ever respond to anybody - man, woman, vegetable, or mineral - who tells me to keep my mouth shut.

God of peace, you are at the center of my life, a strong refuge of peace in the whirlwind of my pain. I look to you for strength and a constant assurance of hope.

When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.

If you believe you can shed pounds quickly by force of will and deprivation, you will in all likelihood not only regain the ones you lost, but add a few more besides.