It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

I love revolutionaries who have the courage to stand up against the status quo. They're always misunderstood, but they're the ones who are standing up for human rights.

Richard Hatch

It's mainly about working hard and proving to people you're serious about it, and stretching yourself and learning. The mistake a lot of actors make, particularly young ones, is allowing themselves to feel that they're the finished articles, the bee's knees, and it's not true.

Daniel Radcliffe

He is great who confers the most benefits.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife--chopping off what's incomplete and saying: 'Now it's complete because it's ended here'.

Frank Herbert, Muad'Dib in Dune

If the best of one's feelings means nothing to the person most concerned in those feelings, what reality is left us?

Virginia Woolf

Tolerance is only another name for indifference.

W. Somerset Maugham

As the strings of a lute are apart though they quiver the same music.

Kahlil Gibran

You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon Ireland's history in their lineaments trace think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.

William Butler Yeats

Make it a rule in life never to regret and never look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it is good only for wallowing in.

Katherine Mansfield

Even in the darkest regions, people have discovered their right of freedom.

Javier Bardem

You can't drive straight on a twisting lane.

Proverb

I guess what I learned the most was to feel lucky with what I have been able to accomplish and what I have and to feel humble about the people I have been able to work with.

Stephen Dorff