Sure it will hurt. But so what? Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of anything, even pain.

Books are like truth serum-- if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real.

remembering is a great invention of the mind, and if you try hard enough you can remember anything, whether it really happened or not.

I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away.

If EXCELLENCE is one of your values, not only you self-critic and evaluate your performance consistently, you BEG others for honest feedback...

I shall bere your noble fame, for ye spake a grete worde and fulfilled it worshipfully.

How to run an ultramarathon ? Puff out your chest, put one foot in front of the other, and don't stop till you cross the finish line.

If you would stop, really stop, damning yourself, others, and unkind conditions, you would find it almost impossible to upset yourself emotionally - about anything. Yes, anything.

It’s just a shame that it had to be played that way.

The spirit must be felt so intensely that it has power to call others in passing, for it must pass, not stop in the pictures.

It is the rule of law alone which hinders the rulers from turning themselves into the worst gangsters.

I think Australians are more interested in what I am doing with their money than what I am doing with my own.

Life is boring. The weather is boring. Actors must not be boring.