Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.

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.

Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling. Think of those Galilean peasants.

I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

I was getting to perform with an actor with whom I had never interacted before

I hear the first drops. Like the tapping of a stranger at the door of a dream, the rain changes everything.

You liberals are going to have to understand something: I'm not the one that wants to put limits on anybody. You people are.

When men have killed joy, I do not believe they still live.

If ever I left the House of Commons it would be because I wanted to spend more time on politics.

The stimulus is our bridge over troubled waters. And if it's invested well, it'll generate a lot of economic growth, and we'll get quite a bit of the revenues back.

I've been attracted to imagery and occasionally I've drawn from it, but I never thought I'd be painting these paintings. I didn't have any desire to. I didn't think there was any reason to.