Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

When thee builds a prison, thee had better build with the thought ever in thy mind that thee and thy children may occupy the cells.

Oh Lord, may I be directed what to do and what to leave undone.

I hope, if you should live to grow up, you will endeavour to be very useful and not spend all your time in pleasing yourself.

It is an honor to appear on the side of the afflicted

I wish the state of enthusiasm I am in may last, for to-day I have felt that there is a God; I have been devotional, and my mind has bben led away from the follies that it is mostly wrapped up in.

If they wish to fight today, let them come like men.

You always learn from your mistakes.

Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.

Charlie Chaplin's genius was in comedy. He has no sense of humor, particularly about himself.

Pay more, eat less. Diversify your diet and eat wild foods when you can.

A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.

I think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one thing to another where you believe he is one thing and he is something very different.

At 27, it's great to get to a place where I'm not an actor for hire anymore.

I'm not the betting kind.

To stick to the present situation would be something like a man who was observed in Times Square looking earnestly along the pavement. He was asked what he was looking for. He said "I lost my watch."