Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.

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.

For what avail the plough or sail Or land or life if freedom fail?

Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.

Many seek happiness higher than men; others beneath him. But happiness is the same height as man.

Your biological age is a critical component in the entire aging process, and again, can be very different from your chronological age.

When we look at a conflict, it is so often rooted in injustice, prejudice, competition for resources, poverty, poor governance and corruption.

Because I'm from Manchester I'm always looking for a bit of blue sky wherever I can find it.

Iraq and Afghanistan are now democracies and they are allies in the cause of freedom and peace.

Can you restrain your laughter, my friends?

Not even my excellent training at Juilliard prepared me for my first movie role, where I played a transsexual who falls in love with a military guy in 'Soldier's Girl.

The period of childhood is a stage on which time and space become entangled.