If you do not hope, you will not win that which is not hoped for, since it is unattainable and inaccessible.

The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Big results require big ambitions.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Dogs bark at what they don't understand.

Change alone is unchanging.

Those who are awake all live in the same world. Those who are asleep live in their own worlds.

What is divine escapes men's notice because of their incredulity.

Those who approach life like a child playing a game, moving and pushing pieces, possess the power of kings.

The goods of fidelity, for example, are plain and concrete to the man who has not strayed, but they are faint, like mathematical abstractions, to the one who is addicted to other men's wives.

I think every war certainly wears on national will and national patience, particularly a counterinsurgency.

Whether or not your values are operational is crucially determined by whether or not there are consequences for noncompliance.

Our perspective is what holds the key to whether the solution is ordinary or extraordinary.

Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.

The way of humanity is to turn everything into a marketable product. But when we turn something into a marketable product it loses something.

There are so many things I'd like to do. I'd really like to be in a period piece that takes place in old New York or old Hollywood and wear those costumes and that makeup.

Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.

It is a very common failing, never to be pleased with our fortune nor displeased with our character.