Unfamiliarity lends weight to misfortune, and there was never a man whose grief was not heightened by surprise.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.

The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution

Don't stumble over something behind you.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself.

It's all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

Anything creative requires a bit of acting, and filling in blanks with imagination.

Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.

You can't compare me with others, I am the most different.

I was shooting one day and it struck me that I was the age that Shirley MacLaine was when she played my mother. I had to sit down. I had to get a chair, okay? It was a weird moment.

You can play a shoestring if you're sincere.

It made me gladsome to be getting some education, it being like a big window opening.

Courage, I don't think anybody is born with courage. I think you may be born with a flair to braggadocio, you know. That's not courage.

Queen Elizabeth, who said, Not now, I'm on the throne. Never got a dinner!

I am now determined to do really weird parts but I think I overdo it in auditions so nobody really trusts me!

O the joy of my spirit - it is uncaged - it darts like lightning!