Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.

The best school of discipline is home. Family life is God's own method of training the young, and homes are very much as women make them.

Where there is a will there is a way.

National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.

The great high-road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast welldoing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful.

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.

Become what you would want to marry, as in, become like the person that you would want to marry.

For the being, maybe. But for the spirit, there are no quick sands.

I like writing better. Because I don't have to wear makeup, I don't have to be thin, and I don't have to remember lines.

I want to enjoy myself in this planet for as long as I can for the people I care about.

Innocence is always unsuspicious.

I like hurting little things that can't fight back

I had wrung impressionism dry and I finally came to the conclusion that I know neither how to paint nor how to draw.

I guess Requiem for a Heavyweight as old as it is was as honest a piece as I've ever done.

My acting range? Left eyebrow raised, right eyebrow raised.

Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair.