When you want success as badly as you want the air, then you will get it. There is no other secret of success.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.

There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

If you want to be wrong then follow the masses.

I am a Citizen of the World, and my Nationality is Goodwill.

To her, it was like asking a butterfly what it remembered about being a caterpillar. She could fly now and nothing could touch her when she left the cocoon of her body behind at night.

Giving when you can is generosity. Giving when you can't is sacrifice.

The Bible's historical accuracy is a reminder that while "the heavens declare the glory of God," there's also plenty of evidence among the rubble and ruins.

I never work with music. I hate background music, always did. I only like music in the foreground, meaning, deliberately listen to it, actually.

Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.

I don't do stunts - I do running, jumping and falling down. After 25 years I know exactly what I'm doing.

In youth, the absense of pleasure is pain, in old age, the absence of pain is pleasure.

If I were to try to identify a turning point I'd say that was it - getting clean.

Canada's most important -- that is to say consequential -- modern voice.

Culture opens our hearts to one another. And the currency in culture is not money, but trust.