“It is not what a man is capable of doing, but what he chooses to do that is important.”

“Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.”

“A man's presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you. By contrast, a woman's presence . . . defines what can and cannot be done to her.”

“Do what you do for the sheer joy of it,Do what you choose,not what someone else chooses for you.”

“An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose”

“If you are never frightened, sir, you would never find out what you was made of and what you was capable of doing. You would never become a better man than what you started out being. P'raps this is what you will discover - what you are made of and what you are capable of. And when you finally do remember who you are, p'raps you will find that you have become a better man than he ever was. P'raps he was a man why never ever grew any more once he reached manhood. P'raps he needed to do something drastic like losing his memory so that he could get his life unstuck.”