The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.

The best school of discipline is home. Family life is God's own method of training the young, and homes are very much as women make them.

Where there is a will there is a way.

National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.

The great high-road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast welldoing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful.

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.

The law is not meant to be obeyed only when it favors you and you are comfortable with it, it is also to be obeyed when it does not favor you or you're not comfortable with it.

Some praise at morning what they blame at night.

The passport changes but the blood doesn't

I had a nice time over Christmas. I watched EastEnders - blimey, that makes my job look easy!

I am more of an old black and white movies fan.

Sometimes, to pursue a new idea, the artist must forfeit his deposit on an old idea.

These monstrous criminals have demonstrated a vile and brutal affront against humanity.

Life is not all about profundity. Life is about little things that piss you off, little triumphs, little defeats. So, you can't spend all your time being profound.

If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don't see it.

The sweets we wish for, turn to loathed sours, Even in the moment that we call them ours.