When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me.

I miss it every minute, and I have no wish at all to go back.

I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given.

[Koudelka] looked back, "You?! I know you! You trust beyond reason!"[Cordelia] met his eyes steadily, "Yes, it's how I get results beyond hope, as you may recall.

You? I know you! You trust beyond reason."She met his eyes steadily. "Yes. It's how I get results beyond hope. As you may recall.

You want to be good. All right, I can understand that. But you have to be careful who you let define your good.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you’ll be so close as to be living inside each other’s skins.

everyone has their folding-point, Miles. Their mortal vulnerability. Some just keep it in a nonstandard location.

Loneliness is no respecter of persons. It invades the palace as well as the hut.

Just staying true to yourself and staying true to your passion. Following your gut.

I think that the worst unpleasantness of age is not its final fact ... but the tediousness of preparation, the accumulating number of defeats.

Where there is no waste, there is no want.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

I would lay down my life for America but I cannot trifle with my Honor.

I would rather try a shot to win than play safe and finish second.

I always prefer to work in the studio. It isolates people from their environment

What makes the difference is not how many times you have been through the Bible, but how many times and how thoroughly the Bible has been through you.

I'm obsessed with lighting. I'm constantly shopping for different lightbulbs. I love rainbow lightbulbs. And also, one should not live without dimmers. Life is all about lighting.