Those who are made can be unmade.

The things you think are the disasters in your life are not the disasters really. Almost anything can be turned around: out of every ditch, a path, if you can only see it.

You know I'm not a man with whom you can have inconsequential conversations. I cannot split myself into two, one your friend and the other the king's servant.

...this is what death does to you, it takes and takes, so that all that is left of your memories is a faint tracing of spilled ash.

He says in his defence he never meddled with married women, only with virgins.

When a man admits guilt we have to believe him. We cannot set ourselves to proving to him that he is wrong. Otherwise the law courts would never function.

The lawyer's world is entire unto itself, the human pared away.

How many men can say, as I must, 'I am a man whose only friend is the King of England'? I have everything, you would think. And yet take Henry away, and I have nothing.

... every monarch needs a blow on the head, from time to time.

If Mary's blood is Spanish, at least it is royal. And at least she can walk straight and has control of her bowels.

Full bellies breed gentle manners. The pinch of famine makes monsters.

I am the prince of procrastination. It is my besetting sin. I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do - the day after

The old believe everything: the middle-aged suspect everything: the young know everything.

Theatre is a must for actors. They should try it at least once. It makes you disciplined, teaches you to respect your work, and boosts your confidence as an actor.

There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.

I'm getting to a point in my life where my whole attitude about the relationship between myself and the audience is totally different.

I have a theory that the Internet makes people stupider. And Also FOX News makes people stupider.

Duty--the command of heaven, the eldest voice of God.

And it's a pity too that I've no right to open your letters. I hope you don't get many, or my conscience will give me no peace.

At an early age, you started hearing it: It's a virtue to be "well-rounded." ... They might as well have said : Become as dull as you possibly can be.

In fact, an information theory that leaves out the issue of noise turns out to have no content.