Creo que es más valiente el que vence a sus deseos que aquel quien vence a sus enemigos, porque la victoria más grande es sobre uno mismo.

Aquel que teme ser conquistado seguramente será derrotado.

Las cosas que más tememos ya nos han ocurrido en la vida.

Tomar un nuevo paso, decir una nueva palabra, es lo que la gente teme más.

A nada en la vida se le debe temer. Solo se le debe comprender.

Usted gana fuerza, valor y confianza con cada experiencia en la cual usted se detiene y mira al miedo en la cara. Ya que luego de esto usted es capaz de decirse a sí mismo: "He superado este terror. Ahora puedo enfrentarme a lo próximo que se me venga."

Usted puede descubrir a que le tiene más miedo su enemigo observando los métodos que el usa para asustarlo.

El miedo es ese pequeño cuarto obscuro donde los negativos son revelados.

El valor no es la ausencia del miedo, más bien, es la opinión de que otra cosa es mucho más importante que el miedo.

Fue un gran consejo que un día escuche que le daban a un niño: "siempre tienes que hacer las cosas a las que le tienes miedo."

Los más valientes son seguramente aquellos quienes tienen una visión clara de lo que está delante de ellos, la gloria y el peligro uno al lado del otro, y aun así, no se resisten a irse a encontrar con ellos.

Valor es hacer las cosas a las que usted le tiene miedo. No puede haber valor a no ser que usted este asustado.

No le tema tanto a equivocarse que usted no intenta nada nuevo en su vida. La hoja de vida más triste de la vida contiene estas tres cosas: Pude haber hecho, tal vez hubiera hecho, y debería haber hecho.

La inacción cultiva el miedo. La acción cultiva la confianza y el valor. Si usted quiere conquistar el miedo, no se quede sentado en la casa pensando acerca sobre este. Salga y ocúpese.

Donde el miedo está presente, la sabiduría no puede estar.

Un hombre con miedo es capaz de hacer cualquier cosa.

La experiencia de superar el miedo es increíblemente deliciosa.

El miedo es natural en el prudente, y el saberlo vencer es ser valiente.

Nadie llegó a la cumbre acompañado por el miedo.

Dejarás de temer cuando dejes de esperar.

La curiosidad vence al miedo más fácilmente que el valor.

Lo único que cura el miedo es el peligro auténtico.

I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time.

For me the end of a book is just as exciting as it is for a reader.

With 'House of Cards,' you really get the heart and the meat of drama - and it's a thriller!

And at 19, you think you rule the world, and you can control things. And a lot of times, you don't.

We know in New York we have several million at any one time who are in New York illegally.

In imperialism nothing fails like success. If the conqueror oppresses his subjects, they will become fanatical patriots, and sooner or later have their revenge; if he treats them well, and governs them for their good, they will multiply faster than their rulers, till they claim their independence.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind... The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their union can knowledge arise.

As kids we didn't complain about being poor; we talked about how rich we were going to be and made moves to get the lifestyle we aspired to by any means we could. And as soon as we had a little money, we were eager to show it.

I was raised in a little church, the Grundy Methodist Church, that was very straight-laced, but I had a friend whose mother spoke in tongues. I was just wild for this family. My own parents were older, and they were so over-protective. I just loved the 'letting go' that would happen when I went to church with my friend.

My goal was always to be working on the biggest stage in the world: Hollywood. Even when I was doing 'The Bill,' I approached the work like it was a Hollywood classic such as 'Training Day' or 'Boyz n the Hood.' So to have worked with some of the greats I've admired, such as Forest Whitaker, Kathy Bates, Cuba Gooding Jr., etc., it warms me.

I wouldn't say I was grumpy. It's more pathological - I have seismic tantrums. I get red in the face and cry at least three times a week, and I have to lie down and have a nap afterwards.

I remember, my mom didn't have any help, so if she needed to be somewhere after school, we'd just go down to the neighbors' and she'd give us a snack and make sure we did our homework. There weren't any latchkey kids.

Banana republics are run on cronyism.

Successive generations of middle-class parents used to foist their own favourite books on their children. But some time in the late Eighties it began to wane - not because children had lost interest in adorable animals but because most of it was available on useful, pacifying video.

When people say to me, 'What do you think of rap music?', my answer is, 'There's no such thing. There's rap, and there's music.'

There's Madeleine, and then there's 'Madeleine Albright'. And I sometimes kind of think, who is this person? Once you become 'Madeleine Albright' it doesn't go away.

Persons who have a painful affection in any part of the body and are in a great measure sensible of the pain are disordered in intellect.

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.

Usually, historical revelations come from days of legwork, ploughing through piles of letters and papers in archives or even private homes, looking for the telling phrase or letter that someone else has missed.

You can't regulate every lab in the world.

We all ended up jumping up and down, hugging each other when Ali won; cause Ali is the greatest.

I was determined to get it right on the pitch. Then, if I had to leave at the end of the season, so be it. I never felt threatened or isolated by the arrangement. We worked together and it worked out.

I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?

I was never, ever the ingenue. The young, innocent lead was just not me.