Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

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.

The stupid neither forgive nor forget the naive forgive and forget the wise forgive but do not forget.

You don't have to kill somebody to play a murderer. You have to read the script and interpret the character.

Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

An advanced way to meditate, of course, is to focus on your teacher. If you have a spiritual teacher and you focus on them during mediation, then you access the light that flows through them.

A lot of the music video stuff I've worked on is mostly me pitching ideas, and then if [the artists] have notes or thoughts, I'll integrate them into the idea.

Hail, follow, well met, All dirty and wet: Find out, if you can, Who's master, who's man.

I really like oysters, and I won't eat them alone. They're just a weird thing to eat by yourself.

But when you dwell in a house you mislike, you will look out of a window a deal more than those that are content with their dwelling.

[Caine] "Interesting. Me, I've always wanted to know who my real parents were." [Sam] "Let me guess: you're secretly a wizard who was raised by muggles.

I have always done films with friends rather than strangers.