So long as lust, whether of the world or flesh, smells sweet in our nostrils, so long we are loathsome to God.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.

The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.

Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

Christianity is faith in a Righteous God .

Every wheel wish to be the wheel of a car, and not of just another vehicle.

If I can do things right, I don't see why everyone else can't.

The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste - the waste of human intelligence and creativity.

I've always felt really good about England. I've always felt really, really good about Britain.

Irish nationalists can never be the assenting parties to the mutilation of the Irish nation. The two nation theory is to us an abomination and a blasphemy.

When I was young, no one wanted to be one; now even the President of the United States would call himself an outsider. So now I'm for insiders.

As the lead actor, you naturally get involved with a show.

The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.

Ultimately, you just have to do what feels right for the film. It really helps when you have great collaborators like my editor, Eduardo Serrano, who kept telling me various scenes should be longer.