An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood; but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it.

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.

I have not yet begun to fight!

He who will not risk cannot win.

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

Whoever can surprise well must conquer.

It is true that I must run a great risk; no gallant action was ever accomplished without danger.

I may sink, but I'll be damned if I strike!

You understand why some animals eat their young.

Where men of fine feeling are concerned there is seldom misunderstanding.

We are not in the world, the world is inside us.

Never let anyone distract your focus from accomplishing great opportunities in your life .

Bad habits are like having a sumo wrestler in the back of your canoe rowing the opposite direction.

He liked to like people therefore people liked him.

I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. I'm not really book-smart.

I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist

When I talk of reality, I am always thinking of essentials. Profundity is not located in some remote, inaccessible region. It is rooted in everyday life.

With a theatre audience there's always the additional sense of a sustained challenge of which I'm acutely aware and for which you need to have the tools ready - your voice, physicality, brain.

Videogames are indeed design: They're sophisticated virtual machines that echo the mechanical systems inside cars.

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.