Beware the People weeping When they bare the iron hand.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.

I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.

Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.

Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.

Meditation and water are wedded for ever.

I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up.

War should be carried on like a monsoon; one changeless determination of every particle towards the one unalterable aim.

I'm not sure about life after this; god knows I'm not a spiritual man.

I'm a normal kid, really. I just love to act.

This is the big reason most humorists fail. Drunks don't read books.

I put the sweat of my life into this project, and if it's a failure, I'll leave the country and never come back.

My dad was dead, so these streets had to raise me.

Movies are thankfully about real people nowadays, and I don't necessarily always look like a real person.

As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception.

See yourself always as cause, and perhaps a better world will be found among your effects.

But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.

We can meet our destiny, and that destiny to build a land here that will be, for all mankind, a shining city on a hill.