I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

Nothing is easier for passion than to overcome reason, but the greatest triumph is to conquer a man's own interests.

I got paid a lot of money at one point so the focus became, for a lot of people, about that, but for me, it's always been the same goal: To stop the world for people.

Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.

I'm just an actor. If it's drama, I add as much humour as the part will stand. And if it's a comedy, add as much drama as you can, so it balances out; you don't wanna be too serious.

No behavior can be changed before it's acknowledged. And no addiction is beyond the reach of Love.

We want lives of simple, predictable ease-smooth, even trails as far as the eye can see-but God likes to go off-road.

I've played a lot of really smarmy people in film, and it can be real fun, don't get me wrong. But it can be characters I'm not as excited to explore.

In scorn of nature, art gave lifeless life.