We didn't know until really quite late in the piece how Joel [Wyman] would finish it off.

You have to become involved to make an impact. No one is impressed with the won/loss record of the referee.

Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, you have to face your demons.

There's a certain pattern that exists with geniuses - an eccentricity, a lack of social graces and an inability to really communicate with mere mortals.

Many very strong fathers have turned out ineffectual sons by not allowing them to grow as men.

We shouldn't be put out to pasture just because we've reached somebody's idea of retirement, which was certainly happening in Australia, and I think elsewhere as well.

I think the glue that held Fringe together was the relationships.

I'd never done anything that required a five-year commitment. To build a show that seems to have kept the imagination of the world so much was a bit otherworldly.

Doing animation is great fun. It's like a different world.

I don't know where the line is. I don't know how much of myself is in Walter. There's got to be a bit of him there.

As actors, you don't actually need to know the future of the character. You just need to know the backgrounds.

Have not women preferred hatred to indifference, and the reputation of witchcraft, with all its penalties, to absolute insignificance?

Miko: You would stand between me and this evil murderer?Hinjo: I'll stand between any two murderers I wish, thanks.

Although our war on drugs must be fortified with the best laws, enforcement efforts and resources, we would not be successful without your individual commitment to this cause.

Talent is the discipline, commitment, and willpower to practice/train/study often, long, and hard. Discover your passion and pay the price.

We are fighting hard against radical Islamic terrorism, and we will prevail. We cannot accept those who reject our values and who use hatred to justify violence against the innocent.

He walked with long, ungraceful strides, enormous feet adding to the spectacle, and he sat a horse as if leaning into a strong wind.

Greece is a bleak, unsmiling desert, without agriculture, manufactures or commerce, apparently. What supports its poverty-stricken people or its Government, is a mystery.

Mystery is the antagonist of truth. It is a fog of human invention, that obscures truth, and represents it in distortion.

Disappoint anyone… hell, disappoint everyone – but don’t ever disappoint yourself.

No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone.