The learning is the heavy lifting. You need to get the words into your brain.

Every villain is a hero in his own mind.

Well, I think there are no villains in this world. There are just misunderstood heroes.

You never know what's around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you've climbed a mountain.

Haters never win. I just think that's true about life, because negative energy always costs in the end.

Make love, not war. Unless you’re Loki, in which case: do what you want.

We all have two lives. The second one starts when we realize that we only have one

Tony Stark in 'Iron Man' helped wider audiences finally embrace the enormous talent of Robert Downey Jr.

Never, ever, let anyone tell you what you can and can't do. Prove the cynics wrong. Pity them for they have no imagination. The sky's the limit. Your sky. Your limit. Now. Let's dance.

Don’t judge people on who they used to be. Allow them to be who they are now.

I think everyone should pursue their dreams. Whether you want to play football, act, sing, become a writer or whatever you have burning inside you as you’re growing up, you should pursue it.

Will stared down at his hands. "My whole life wrecked, destroyed..." "You're seventeen, " Magnus said. "You can't have wrecked a life you've barely lived.

Much more likely you’ll hurt me. Still what does it matter? If I’ve got to suffer, it may as well be at your hands, your pretty hands.

Cowards drown in a pond. The extraordinary flourish in the middle of the ocean.

Full-blooded romantic love I wouldn't be able to write about.

The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations.

When I'm recording something (especially because I produce my own music) I might consider how hard it would be to replicate a song on stage.

I'm not a disciplinarian. I simply enforce other people's decisions.

Vengeance has no foresight.

I turned and faced the Olympians. "We need a shroud," I announced, my voice cracking. "A shroud for the son of Hermes.

Farewell, Love, and all thy laws for ever.