I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.

O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

Look back, and smile on perils past.

Patience is a natural consequence of the cultivation of compassion & love, for ourselves and all beings.

There's an idea that action movies are more attractive to one gender than the other or different kinds of people or whatever. The truth is action is not any different than any other part of a story.

Being a part of the action is just incredible. I loved doing stunt stuff. I loved learning to ride.

But the tricks I use are ones that will hopefully benefit the team.

I grew up as a reader as well as a movie-lover, so many of the novelists I admired - and so many of the great filmmakers I loved - were self-taught.

Conformity is inevitable when folks huddle together in rebellion.

Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offence returning, to regain Love once possess'd.

When I was young I thought: when I am 60 my necessities will be very different. As I get near that age, I realise they are similar to what they were when I was 25.

If there's no other alternative, I support civilian trials for terrorists.

Like a stalker. An obsessed stalker. An obsessed, vampire stalker