It's other people who make us wise, and I haven't known nearly enough.

Sometimes there's not a better way. Sometimes there's only the hard way.

What I think is all I have left. My mind is the only thing that makes me different from a fancy toaster. What we think does matter-it's all we truly have.

Maybe we all have a dark place inside of us, a place where dark thoughts and darker dreams live, but it doesn't have to become who we are.

And all I want is to hold her and make the rest of the world go away.

The first step to going somewhere is to begin.

Ill usage makes the sweetest of us vicious.

The shift in thought frequency of a single individual has enough energy to light up the world’s lighthouses—we hold that much power within us.

Swift waters parted by the jagged rocks are joined at river's end. / 瀬をはやみ 岩にせかるる 滝川の われても末に あはむとぞ思ふ

In big houses in which things are done properly there is always the religious element. The diurnal cycle is observed with more feeling when there are servants to do the work.

There is a core independence and dignity you get when you control your own time.

I have made more documentaries in my time than I think I care to remember, though I am immensely proud of all my work.

To secure respect to a neutral flag requires a naval force organized and ready to vindicate it from insult or aggression.

Don't get discouraged: it is often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock. Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

Actors make choices for different reasons.