"It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship."

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."

"I have learned that to get out of life what I expect, I must commit myself to beginning each day by concentrating on positive thoughts and focusing on my goals." 

"I learned from my mother that there is a greatness in all of us, and that all of us are delivered to this world with a mission." 

The prime minister did not wholly believe in the past or in any lessons that might be drawn from it.

Cloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.

Above literature?' said the Queen. 'Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.

Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.

A book is a device to ignite the imagination.

What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.

One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle.

I used to pre-rehearse everything and then bring my pre-rehearsed performance to the set. Now, I'm learning to let it happen in the moment. American actors are much better at that than British actors. If I knew how to trust myself, I would have been much more relaxed.

I used to pre-rehearse everything and then bring my pre-rehearsed performance to the set. Now, I'm learning to let it happen in the moment. American actors are much better at that than British actors. If I knew how to trust myself, I would have been much more relaxed. Maybe I would have less gray hairs today.

I never went to drama school, I don't have any certificates saying: 'He's a qualified actor.' But I did think that 'House' was something I didn't have to apologise for. It was something I was really proud of and it was sort of... whether you liked it or not, it was undeniable.

I need someone to give me a part where I play the piano so I can learn it. I would love that.

I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.

It takes obstacles to learn, grow, be better.

What I do is just go over and over and over my lines and learn the script so well that I can just be easy and relaxed. That's the way I always work.

Oh yes. I'm an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little bit of thought.

I learn poetry, learn text, and that really keeps you alive.

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.