The moon in all her immaculate purity hung in the sky, laughing at this world of dust. She congratulated me for my carefully considered maneuvers and invited me to share in her eternal solitude.

I envied these women I saw before me, their beauty still intact. Life has its revenge of life. Untimely death is the secret of eternal youth.

Heroes are damned. No mortal conquers Death.

A man who does not like power will suffer from its cruelty.

My position at the Palace is our one opportunity. Have confidence in my destiny. Do not weep.

Men’s strengths go hand in hand with their weaknesses. That is why there is no such thing as an invincible warrior, and why heroes die.

I will say this about being an optimist: even when things don't turn out well you are certain they will get better.

There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds.

For us in England, the relative value of the pound against the dollar, that has a huge impact on how easy it is to get our films made in the U.K.

I refuse to let anybody try to typecast me. It's against my nature. I like to continually do different things.

I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.

We see in these swift and skillful travelers a symbol of our life, which seeks to be a pilgrimage and a passage on this earth for the way of heaven.

Focus on being grateful for what you have already .. enjoy it!! Then release into the universe. The universe will manifest it.

The Romans did not see [the tale of Romulus, Remus and the she-wolf] as a charming story; they meant to show that they had imbibed wolfish appetites and ferocity with their mother's milk.

It sounds so stupid, so basic, but when you are really in a grateful state, you are like a magnet for joy.

If nothing ever changed, there would be no such things as butterflies.