Even where there is talent, culture, knowledge, if there is not earnestness, it does not go to the root of things.

Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.

A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

It may make a difference to all eternity whether we do right or wrong today.

Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well.

We are either progressing or retrograding all the while; there is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.

Conscience in the soul is the root of all true courage. If a man would be brave, let him learn to obey his conscience.

Manliness means perfect manhood, as womanliness implies perfect womanhood. Manliness is the character of a man as he ought to be, as he was meant to be.

I can do small things in a great way.

The atheist has no hope.

Art itself, in all its methods, is the child of religion. The highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry and music, have been born out of the religion of Nature.

Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.

When a dreamer loses his lover, his dream profits. (Unless, of course, the lover was the dreamer's dream.)

Always stand up for what yo believe in... even if it means standing alone.

I'm so glad I spent 10 years being sad and lonely.

What is not hereditary cannot be permanent.

A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.

I love coming back to Neath - this is home and always will be.

So even if the hot loneliness is there, and for 1.6 seconds we sit with that restlessness when yesterday we couldn't sit for even one, that's the journey of the warrior. (68)

I could never write. I would just be too lonely. What's great about acting is, it's so collaborative.

Most things in here don't react well to bullets.