Government is not competent enough to regulate.

Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.

Remember, the greater the opportunity, the fewer are those who see it.

Independent thinkers are usually geniuses or idiots and at times it's hard to tell which.

To enslave a people, give them money they didn't earn.

It's easier to have faith in yourself if you have faith in God.

To succeed in business, put the interest of the customer ahead of your own.

The decline and fall of a civilization is barely noticed by most of its citizens.

Love of country is nowhere the same as love of government.

Apparently there's nothing more dangerous than a religious criminal.

Hardly anything works out as well as we hope.

No one is too poor to give a smile - a gift, often, of greater consequence than any sum of money.

No writer in our time has been more isolated than Kafka, and yet few have achieved communication as well as he did.

I'm loyal and very good about giving people opportunities.

People say, "How come you play bad guys so much?" And I say, "Well, have you seen many Asian good-guy roles?"

I would do anything to stay beside you forever.

From the time I could play the piano, I remember trying to write tunes. They were in my head, and I would just sit down and start noodling. Next thing I knew, I had written a melody.

My mum never understood how much I earned. When I told her I earned a million pounds a film, she said, 'How much is that?'

I've always been relatively reserved with my social encounters.

If the EU and its 25 member states make a clever use of all policy instruments, broadband for all Europeans is certainly not out of reach by 2010.