It is perseverance, and not genius that takes a man to the top. Rome is full of unrecognized geniuses. Only perseverance enables you to move forward in the world.

People perish. Books are immortal.

Golf requires only a few simple Rules and Regulations to guide the players in the true nature of its sporting appeal. The spirit of the game is its own referee.

Suicide leaves everyone feeling guilty.

The true currency of life is time, not money, and we've all got a limited stock of that.

But clever people all make one mistake. They all think everyone else is stupid. And everyone isn't stupid. They just take a bit more time, that's all.

You can't make sense of the present unless a part of you lives in the past.

Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.

Their souls were contagious. ... Bloodsuckers, spiders and vampires: that was what Lenin called them.

If one first gives himself to the Lord, all other giving is easy.

The natural impulse of men is to follow and whoever has the strongest sense of purpose will always dominate.

Reflect who you truly are even when people try to tempt you to reflect the wrong image of yourself.

But I'm a big, firm believer in speaking everything into existence.

Ive seen an increasing willingness to hire Canadians for lead roles that shoot up here. When I started, they would always just fly in L.A. people to do the lead roles.

If you can't know the truth, said Isolde, live the most awesome lie you can think off.

If I'm in danger then it's usually my fault and it's up to me to get myself out of it. I am not in it just to get an adrenalin rush. No way!

No-one is born with perfect eyebrow.

My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing.

Well, my father was in the Army and we traveled quite a bit when I was growing up, and I thought that I would like to have a military career, although I was drawn more towards the Navy.

And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand, The hand that held the steel: For only blood can wipe out blood, And only tears can heal

The secret of the illusoriness is in the necessity of a succession of moods or objects. Gladly we would anchor, but the anchorageis quicksand.