For every virtuous man, there are ten thousand worshipers of virtue.

True happiness comes when you give your best in something beyond yourself.

Hope is a gift we give ourselves in our darkest despair.

A single thread of hope is stronger than all the chains that bind you.

I have come face to face with many truths from the past that had to be revised with present knowledge.

Failure, loss and defeat are just mile markers on the road to success.

There is no greater success as when you turn your enemy into your ally.

Success comes not from having certainty, but being able to live with uncertainty.

Success involves avoiding the lure of making excuses.

Success involves going to where others believe is too far.

An attitude of gratitude increases abundance and diminishes fear.

Words is but wind but dunts is the devil

In the queer mess of human destiny the determining factor is luck.

I'm reading a lot of poetry because it's a lot easier to dip in and dip out when you've got 10 minutes to yourself.

Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

I'm like a book you have to read. A book can't read itself to you. It doesn't even know what it's about. I don't know what I'm about.

I've done about four deaths in films now, and I think it's quite good because then it's sort of a memorable moment in the film.

There being in the make of an English mind a certain gloom and eagerness, which carries to the sad extreme; religion to fanaticism; free-thinking to atheism; liberty to rebellion.

O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap May who ne'er hung there. Nor does long our small Durance deal with that steep or deep.

I don't think I am beautiful. I can look good and I can look ugly.

The only thing I know is that I know nothing