I have never really believed that acting is very difficult. I think some people have a skill and are able to act, and if you have that natural gift, it's not difficult.

As an actor, you want to do the best job possible, and you want the best scripts possible because it makes life more interesting.

Being an actor is often very tedious, which is why it helps hugely if your fellow cast members are also good friends.

Once leaders embrace the role of coach, they realize the weight of leadership is now balanced between themselves and their direct reports.

Life is too short. I forgive and forget. I have not time to get mad or hate.

The grass is always greener on the other side of personal extinction.

The dangers of the sea should always take precedenceover the violence of the enemy’Rear-Admiral Ben Bryant CB, DSO and two bars, DSC

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

Courage comes through achievement, but also through the attempt.

No one would barbecue their family dog. Why is a cow or a pig or a chicken different?

There were never going to be any happy endings for me. I know that now. But that is all right.

Evil can be condoned only if in the beyond it is compensated by good and god himself needs immortality to vindicate his ways to man.