We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.

No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.

A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.

Let thy fortune be what it will, 'tis thy mind alone that makes thee poor or rich, miserable or happy.

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.

To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.

Be not solitary, be not idle

No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.

[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.

If you like not my writing, go read something else.

Beauty Lies Within The unknown

The fact is we all know that there exists in the world an order different from that in which we pass our days. If we reveal its existence people think that we are crazy.

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

Our history is not our destiny.

It's not just about filming, you go to awards and interviews too. I enjoy all of it, even learning my lines!

When we don't enjoy what we do, we only nick the surface of our potential.

I recently reread an article of mine written in 1964, and I think it is still valid. There is not much difference. Many of the items on the agenda 37 years ago are still there.

The 'leisured' wife was a badge of achievement, the ornament to hard work and virtue for families on the way up.

Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life.

We prefer to talk about 100% renewable instead of zero carbon. When you say zero carbon, you are not positively defined.