With courage and hope, we can conquer our fears and do what we once believed impossible.

Hope is such a tenuous quality. To feel it and then to be denied what one most longs for ... Better, surely, not to hope at all, than to open the heart to a hope that is impossible.

I was bored stiff while reading this. I got so bored I wanted to slit my wrists to see how my flatmate would react.

You overcome a problem, not by solving it, but by becoming bigger than the problem.

The difference between getting somewhere and nowhere is the courage to make an early start.

The best manners are stained by haughtiness.

I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.

I don't have a lot of pressure on myself to be successful. I'm more of an artist. I just try to make myself more a part of the most beautiful painting as possible. And enjoy it.

If you want to be a Roman Catholic scholar and write, you've got to write in such a way that nobody understands what you're saying, and then you're thought to be profound.

Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.

Man could not live by darkness alone, one point of light he must have for salvation -- one point of light.

The one thing I always talk about in terms of restaurants is consistency.