The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs 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.

In a certain light, feminism is just the long, slow realization that the stuff you love hates you

I simply wish to continue to learn, & try to do what I have to do, better.

Directors don't always create, they can also destroy with too many demands.

I think bravery means a different thing to everyone.

The truth is you don't like the theater except the times when you're in a room by yourself putting the play on paper.

The highest, the only reality, is ever at hand, but for the most part invisible. Genius makes it visible.

Somewhere in this world is a man who loves you, who understands how precious and clever and kind you are. A man who has always loved you and, to his detriment, suspects he always will.

I think 2015 will see a year where Europe outperforms the U.S. massively.

While there is no cure, cystic fibrosis is so close to being a livable disease. There is a lot of hope.

I'm not an ensemble actor, because it's always a lot of ego when you're all together in the scene. It's kind of intellectual fighting for something.