With words we govern men.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

With all the god-awful suffering in this war, I suppose somebody ought to be enjoying it.

I believe transparency in government is key to restoring our nation's faith in its elected leaders.

A lot of the kinship that people notice is not coincidental. I was very impressionable and trying to find my role models when I was twelve or thirteen.

We figured you could download live shows for days, so we decided to go for a cream-of-the-crop approach, but not just take the best vocal or the best performances.

I am a fan of the monster and horror genre but that's not my style as a director.

Only conformists are ever adored.

And when is it ever convincing, the belief others have in your abilities? You know perfectly well they can't see the mess inside you.

Our parents don't know us... They can't know us. We hide ourselves from them. Once they knew everything about us and in order to escape them we keep out secrets, our private selves.

We may fairly judge of the commercial prosperity of a country from the amount of sulphuric acid it consumes.

That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders at the usual.