The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

He who is brave is free.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

Revive soul, Renew spirit.

And as always seems to happen when I have reached the point where I am ready to take decisive action, everything began to happen at once.

Wearing a tuxedo isn't as simple as it sounds. I've been to a lot of award shows in Hollywood over the years and have seen some pretty sad tuxes. It's surprisingly easy to go off the rails.

I admit that living in Nigeria sounds romantic, but Africa isn't America by a long shot. It's a different world and a different place in time...

My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains/ My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk.

I am very hopeful that there is a solution to the Israeli/Palestinian injustice.

I don't have a competitive bone in my body, so the last thing I want to do is be competing with people.

I just listen to quite random songs; I don't like really particular artists or bands.

It's one of the oldest theatrical adages: never work with children or animals.

One of the great ambitions is to discover the diversity of the world, to discover who inhabits the world.