The most brilliant actor that I have ever worked with. I've liked others very much more.

But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for.

If we fix a goal and work towards it, then we are never just passing time.

But the delights of solitude don't only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

I have always found it difficult to wait for things - whether it was to see my father or sailor brother, Alan, again after their long sea trips, or the chance of a better job, or even new curtains.

So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.

Everyone needs some time to themselves.

The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure.

I realized then that even though I was a tiny speck in an infinite cosmos, a blip on the timeline of eternity, I was not without purpose.

He had scores to settle with the world, and she, at that moment, was world enough for him.

he knew that men were too complex to be defined by the worst moment in their lives

The future is keeping you out of the present time.

The stakes ... are too high for government to be a spectator sport.

What are the purposes and priorities of teaching? . . . First, to inspire. Second, to challenge. Third, and only third, to impart information.

The ground that a good man treads is hallowed.

If you tell yourself something often enough you will start to believe it, that is why you must make self love your mantra.

Should we become so proficient at self-presentation that we can dissemble without anyone suspecting?

Seeing things a human shouldn't have to see makes us human.