All too often unemployment is used as an excuse for misbehaving when jobs are available within walking distance.

Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.

Remember, the greater the opportunity, the fewer are those who see it.

Independent thinkers are usually geniuses or idiots and at times it's hard to tell which.

To enslave a people, give them money they didn't earn.

It's easier to have faith in yourself if you have faith in God.

To succeed in business, put the interest of the customer ahead of your own.

The decline and fall of a civilization is barely noticed by most of its citizens.

Love of country is nowhere the same as love of government.

Apparently there's nothing more dangerous than a religious criminal.

Hardly anything works out as well as we hope.

For every hour spent on worrying, is sixty minutes that could have been spent on seeking for some solutions.

When you're sorting yourself out, family are not often the ones you can turn to. They represent the place of departure and not the place of arrival.

It would be a good thing to buy books if one could also buy the time to read them

The more a man judges, the less he loves

I'd like to keep work work and life life. It means you've got your life to come back to, somewhere to come home to at night that isn't invaded by your day.

Unlike a lot of people, I don't need the affirmation or anything.

Suddenly in the end when it's over, you feel a big weight on your shoulders. That's the role of the captain. Unfortunately, it's sometimes like that in sport.

I love stories about teachers. For some reason I can't get enough of those kind of stories. If I turn a movie on about a teacher, I love it. I love that idea of an adult influence on kids.

My career is very easy to interpret. It's about working. I'm a working actor, so that's how I see myself.

I've always been a shy person.