There is a time in every life when paths are chosen, character is forged. I could have chosen a different path. But I didn’t. I failed myself.

And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.

Peace is not happenstance. It is a living fire that must be fed constantly. It must be tended to with vigilance, else it dies out.

You must remember, my dear lady, the most important rule of any successful illusion: First, the people must want to believe in it.

But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on.

There is an ancient tribal proverb I once heard in India. It says that before we can see properly we must first shed our tears to clear the way.

When she can't bring me to heal with scolding, she bends me to shape with guilt.

Our mouths and bodies speak for us in a new language as the trees shake loose a rain of petals that stick to our slickness like skins we will wear forever. And just like that, I am changed.

But if we are to remain a great empire, we must have a greater understanding of the hearts and minds of others.

War." Gorgon spits the word. "That is what they call it to give the illusion of honor and law. It is chaos. Madness and blood and the hunger to win. It has always been thus and shall always be so.

Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains.

War is a monster. War is the devil. It starts and it consumes and it grows and grows. And otherwise normal men become monsters, too.

The Saviour is the Source of life.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

I think in both of those situations, it's important as an actor to learn, despite the success I had as a kid, that it's important to understand what it means to be a small fish in a big pond.

A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.

C'mon, Amy, cinnamon rolls are calling us." Dan put a hand to his ear. "Do you hear? 'Amy? Dan?'" he squeaked. "'Come and get my sugary, sticky goodness!

Do not bother about to be recorded in history, try not to become a thing of the past!

Knowledge is the source of Wealth. Applied to tasks we already know, it becomes Productivity. Applied to tasks that are new, it becomes Innovation.

Seventy-five years ago I was born in Tampico, Illinois, in a little flat above the bank building. We didn't have any other contact with the bank than that.

In all things there must be order, but it must of such a kind as is possible to observe...to see a man burnt for doing as he thought right, harms the people, for this is a matter of conscience.