...I lived for those long casual walks down the beach and the sight of her small footprints in the glistening wet sand...

Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.

I had come to a place where I was meant to be. I don't mean anything so prosaic as a sense of coming home. This was different, very different. It was like arriving at a place much safer than home.

The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.

Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.

Honor is the presence of God in man.

The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it.

I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.

There were far worse strategies in life than to try to make each aspect of one's existence a minor work of art.

I felt the sharp sting of emptiness and solitude that you feel so acutely and with such internal sorrow and wonder whenever music is performed well.

I cannot express how lordly and transfigured I felt at that moment. I was a prince of that harbor, a porpoise king - slim among the buoys and the water traffic.

Life is a sacred experiment.

Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.

You are not a true success unless you are helping others be successful.

If the studio wants to spend money on making your movie better, let them.

I’d like to have a nice home set up, with a couple of dogs, and a fence, white picket fence.

Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.

An OBE is what you get if you clean the toilets well at King's Cross station.

Morality is not defined and cannot be defined by individual choice.

I've always been an actor. That's my job — I can be anything you want me to be.

Liberalism is assisting quality of life, whatever you may choose.