I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up.

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.

We are what we think. Think great, be great.

Life is an illusion that last too little.

Some of the best lessons come from a bad day and there's a few we can learn from today.

If you have one volcano in the world, that one volcano puts out more carbon dioxide than everything man puts out.

I know what to keep to myself. I know what I want to give up.

Start telling the stories that only you can tell.

Those who spread their sails in the right way to the winds of the earth will always find themselves born by a current towards the open seas.

Our problem is that we often expect instantaneous solutions to such challenges, forgetting that frequently the heavenly virtue of patience is required.

I love the acting community at Cambridge. It's really quite committed and serious, since the days of Derek Jacobi and Ian McKellen right through to Emma Thompson and Hugh Laurie.

Actor is just a strange profession, it really is, that you could be in front of the same people for years, and all of a sudden one thing happens, and it finally clicks.