The Continent will not suffer England to be the workshop of 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.

Reality is based on, and controlled by, our thoughts.

Learn to enjoy the way as much as you would enjoy when you reach the destination.

If someone keeps bringing you down, perhaps it's time to get up and leave

Treat the world like a failed state, then you can understand the players needed to fix it.

I'm no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little bit of Brooklyn.

When you're working with film and you hear that mag starting to roll and you know that there's thousands of dollars just spinning around, it's another stress element, which I don't enjoy at all.

I was born modest; not all over, but in spots.

Since eternity means happiness for you, what does it matter if some of these passing moments are unpleasant?

Man's life is short; and therefore an honorable death is his immortality.

Despair is your friend in show business. I don't believe you can act if happiness is your lot. It's the ups that keep you living and the downs that mete out talent.