From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.

Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?

Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and have little; to presume much, and be worth little.

That one man scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star.

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

The wicked are always ungrateful.

Her father guarded her, and she guarded herself; for there are no padlocks, bolts, or bars, that secure a maiden better than her own reserve.

You discover yourself through the research of your work.

I've got a farm in England where I breed horses.

That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

Karl Malden was quite a mentor. He taught me things he had learned from being in front of a camera so long.

He hath no leisure who useth it not.

It's not wether you were right or wrong, but how much faith you were willing to have - that decides the future.

I like chocolate because it's chocolatey!

Liberty isn't liberalism, arbitrariness, but it's connected; it's conditioned by the great values of love and solidarity and in general by the good.

It is always wiser, where there is a choice, to trust inertia. It is the greatest force in the world.

There are scientists who will tell you that spirit, because it can’t be measured, doesn’t exist. Bollocks. It does exist.