No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.

Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.

Nature can do more than physicians.

Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry.

We are Englishmen; that is one good fact.

Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.

Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.

He who stops being better stops being good.

What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.

Necessity has no law.

No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.

The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.

I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.

Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.

A few honest men are better than numbers.

God made them as stubble to our swords.

Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.

I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.

I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.

Put your trust in God my boys, but mind to keep your powder dry.

Action without a name, a "who" attached to it, is meaningless.

I think a lot of people saw 'Fight Club' and thought, 'Right, here's our next Che Guevara, here's our next Fidel Castro, here's someone who's going to wave the flag.' And I was like, 'No, it's just a book. And if I beat that drum, if I play that song one more time, I won't have a career.'

This isn't about deer hunting. The Second Amendment is about our right to keep and bear arms to defend ourselves.

On film you put all your energies into a single glance.

We all want what's been suddenly disallowed.

In Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Jekyll & Hyde,' the hero decides on the terms of his transformation in a process that's explained not through the supernatural but the natural or, at least, through biochemistry.

I've come to learn that the choices I labor over and go back and forth about and ask a million people for their opinions and make lists about... those are always the wrong choices.

I never do anything that doesn't feel natural to me. I wake up in the morning and I know what to put on - it's my sixth sense, really.

I feel for the players.

I was Paul Schrader's assistant for six months before I went to film school, and he's very much about knowing what's going to happen on every page before you even start writing dialogue - the entire plot and character arcs are mapped out.

It's difficult to put into words what freedom feels like. You only know what freedom feels like if you know what it feels like to not be free.

The License Raj in India was a time when, to set up an industry, you needed a license. Which made the government an omnipresent and sort of all-pervasive authority.

The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.

Putin must be punished for violating the Budapest Memorandum, and Russia must learn that the U.S. will isolate it if it insists on acting like a rogue nation.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.

We can't ever forget that the Internet now is just a staid utility. The exciting platforms are software applications that are very, very simple.

'Homeland' is necessarily open-ended since the idea behind television is to spend as much time as possible resolving as little as possible, with a story's usual need for resolution replaced by an unrelenting urgency that always defers answers and constantly postpones closure.

To live is to paint, it is to create; but while we are painting, we are being painted, being created as well!

I am told by others that I have a lateral-thinking, broad approach to problems, sometimes to my detriment. In school, my grades always suffered because I was continually mucking about with irrelevant side issues, which I often found to be more interesting.

I think my best work is when I'm kind of in charge.

We tend to be more environmental at home than at work, regardless of the industry we're in.

When we ask for advice were really looking for confirmation of what our soul already knows.

You have to have coaches willing to adapt.

I had no interest in cinema until I was 24 years old. My friends had posters of their favourite stars in their houses, but I was far from a film buff - very detached from films.