“It is possible to grieve for the loss of a thing even as you are in possession of it. To crave the very thing you have been blessed with.”

“Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.”

“Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to their weight; and if they do not come, your worry is useless; and in either case it is weak and in vain, and distrust of God's providence.”

“After this whole acting thing is over and done, you eventually have to be human. Some people are never human. It's very weird.”

“The only difference between you today and a year from now are the people you know and what you have learned.”

“You have to learn to love the small things in life, like a hot bath. You have to love the small things, when you have nothing else.”

“The first rule in politics is that there are no rules, at least not in the sense of inevitable defeats or inevitable victories. If you have the right policy and the right strategy, you always have a chance of winning. Without them, you can lose no matter how certain the victory seems.”