Life is no brief candle but a splendid torch made to burn ever more brightly.

I have a conviction that it's only when you are put at full stretch that you can realise your full potential.

God knows the angel's wings must have been over us in view of the terrible mortality in all other camps up an down this line which seemed to be being built in bones.

The moral is obvious it is that great armaments lead inevitably to war.

Every country needs its heroes, and we must follow them.

The greatest inheritance that a man hath is the liberty of his person, for all others are accessory to it.

Life is life. You choose to live it or you do not.

When all around you are losing their heads, use Cosmic Ordering.

God will not come from Heaven to help us, but He’ll use the people around us for that

I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want to be. I've tried to keep the corruption minimal.

It is more likely that more than a century will pass before we know the structure of the chemical atoms as thoroughly as we do our solar system.

I always thought the saddest feeling in life is when you're dancing in a really joyful way and then you hit your head on something.

I want to pave my own path artistically.

I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that.

I really enjoy the iPad because you can multi-task: I can watch a movie, read, look at pictures that I shot - because I'm into photography. It serves a lot of purposes for me.

Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.