The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.

Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.

The value of time is only equal to the value of life.

Nobody can make you happy or unhappy except you.

One accusation you can't throw at me is that I've always done my best.

It is entirely clear that there is only one way in which great wars can be permanently prevented, and that is the establishment of an international government with a monopoly of serious armed force.

Well, I think that there is a connection between being a lawyer and a doctor and an actor. They kind of, in some ways, have the same appeal, I suppose.

People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.

I will not be a traitor of God to please the whole world.

Love is found in the things we've given up, more than in the things that we have kept.

The only lost cause is one we give up on before we enter the struggle.