No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.

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.

Whoever tells a lie is not pure of heart, and such a person can not cook a clean soup.

I think the British audience might be more open-minded with some of my imagery and weird choices.

Reason may cure illusions, but not suffering.

When you can find a strong character and a director that does want to protect the integrity of all characters, female and male, then you have a good deal.

I always had a decent sense of outrage.

Let's just say that I was raised by my grandparents.

How do you walk into someone's life again after twenty-eight years? How do you pick up, when you were too young to know where you left off.

Before you ridicule, remember somebody on a railway platform who seems to be train spotting may actually be writing poetry.

The supply of government exceeds demand.

I really don't want to thank my wife because I could be bussing tables at the Daily Grill right now if not for her. Jesus, what a gig that'd be.