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

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

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

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.

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.

God would light the way. Faith would keep them on the right path.

Create delusion. Establish doubt. Feed paranoia.

I don't need anybody to market or promote me. If people don't want to hear this music, then it's not for them. You cannot please everybody.

We tried to be as ready and solid as we could be, ... Filmmaking is always some form of chaos, and to what extent you're able to harness the chaos.

I do enjoy the puzzle-solving aspect of making a movie.

Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.

Nothing can be further apart than true humility and servility.

Those of us that had been up all night were in no mood for coffee and donuts, we wanted strong drink. We were, after all, the cream of the national sporting press.

The Way is eternal. Until your last day, you are free from peril.

I think you need to have people around you whose standard is high and who don't accept anything less.