“A man’s character is his fate.”

It is hard to contend against one’s heart’s desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.

It is in changing that we find purpose.

You won’t discover the limits of the soul, however far you go.

Time is a game played beautifully by children.

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

Day by day, your choices, your thoughts, your actions fashion the person you become.

Eyes and ears are bad witnesses to men having barbarian souls.

Mortals are immortals and immortals are mortals, the one living the others’ death and dying the others’ life.

Without injustices, the name of justice would mean what?

All things come into being by conflict of opposites.

Out of every one hundred men, ten shouldn’t even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back.

Realize that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things come into being and pass away through strife.

Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.

To be evenminded is the greatest virtue. Wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

I’m not what you might call sexy, but I’m romantic. Let’s put it that way.

What happens with every role, you have to trick yourself, you have to creatively find ways to explore the mental state of your character.

Happiness is not the end of life: character is.

I’ve played many characters that have consumed me and owned me.

The way I understand it, the Russians are sort of a combination of evil and incompetence… sort of like the Post Office with tanks.

Education has for its object the formation of character.

Temperament is the thermometer of character.

A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.