"Real success is gaining the ability to face situations in life with maturity."

“From one seed a whole handful: that was what it meant to say the bounty of the earth.”

“I am really not interested or excited by repeating former successes.”

“There will always be people who have power over me, who can destroy my spirit and drain my soul. My best defense is to behave as if I have no soul, to act as if my spirit has already been crushed. Perhaps then, I will be left alone or ignored.”

“It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have a rule that if I wake up at 3 in the morning and think of something, I write it down. I can't wait until morning-it'll be gone.”

“The point is, it didn’t really matter what the book was about. It was what it meant that was important.”

“When you play in the Premier League, say you're playing against a lower-end team, they set up to defend all the time, they set up to block you off. But when you play in the Champions League, all the other teams are used to winning every week, so it's more of an open game, it's more attacking, end-to-end.”

Source : "Real Madrid target Gareth Bale insists Spanish football is tops - and admits he'd like to play in La Liga" by Ben Curtis, www.mirror.co.uk. July 2, 2013.

“You have to carry so many archetypes as an actor, especially as a blonde-haired, blue-eyed one.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I don't read other writers because I'm writing all the time. It's too disturbing to read a writer with a good style when you're in the middle of putting your work together.”