“Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.”

Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

Your body must become familiar with its death – in all its possible forms and degrees – as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times.

Maturity – among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.

Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.

I never discuss discussions.

A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.

Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.

There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life’s point of no return.

Is life so wretched? Isn’t it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

How can I die? I’m booked.

How you think, and how much you think, is so important in golf.

The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?

Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.

That’s one of our biggest challenges is finding out how to do that. There are times when you have to scale back.

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

When someone bestows something on you, no matter how true it is, when someone says, ‘Sexiest Man Alive,’ I’m honestly going, ‘Thank you. Right on.’ For me, it’s never canceled out anything, it’s never made me go, ‘Does this make me less talented of an actor?’