We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

don't try to be best, try to give your best.

Make it your ultimate habit of life to be kind.

. . .you sounded frustrated and pissed off and amazingly happy

We're on a hunt, Cooper. When you're on a hunt, you do whatever it takes.

When we're young we want to change the world. When we're old we want to change the young.

Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.

I was going through some emotional turmoil. You can tell by the tunes on the album that I was going through a break-up of my marriage. It was the only way I could express myself.

My goal is to show everyone that they, too, can do what they love to do.

Short-term amnesia is not the worst affliction if you have an Irish flair for the sauce.

Giger’s work disturbs us, spooks us, because of its enormous evolutionary time span. It shows us, all too clearly, where we come from and where we are going.