George Bernard Shaw said that thinking was the greatest of all human endeavors, but I would say that feeling was. Allowing yourself to feel things, to feel love or wrath, hatred, rage.

Regret is useless in life. It's in the past. All we have is now.

Only the one who walks his own way can't be overtaken.

Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.

Never surrender to the momentum of mediocrity.

The more sensitive you are, the more certain you are to be brutalized, develop scabs, never evolve. Never allow yourself to feel anything, because you always feel to much.

All I want to be is normally insane.

Tell me, do you spend time with your family? Good. Because a man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.

If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.

An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so he must be willing to accept all experiences that life can offer.

Every time you get knocked down you get up stronger.

The doors to Wisdom & Glory are never closed, they just favor the undaunted

The early sense of self-similarity as an organizing principle came from the limitations on the human experience of scale.

Don't misquote me as wanting to hurt homosexual people in any way. That would be a dastardly lie.

Our sense of calling should be like an unfolding epic adventure.

I keep expectations so embarrassingly low that I broke my contract and went and got a hair-cut.

Democracy is the best school to learn soft power.

I'd rather go with someone who wasn't a great speaker, but was a great chef, rather than someone who was a great performer, but maybe not a great cook.

You're only a victim once. The next time you're an accomplice.

But you don't get into a business because of personal tastes.

For a small island, the place is remarkably diverse. Writers tend to see things from their own points of view, looking in one direction very much.