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“All I want is that Americans still be able to read the alphabet in a hundred years. I am not very ambitious.”
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“Gore will not win a popularity contest, he will not win a personality contest, but he can win an idealogical battle, and he can win a battle of experience.”
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“In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants.”
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“There's different girls in my life that play different roles and I see at different times, but collectively they kind of make up the roster of happiness for me.”
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“Be brave, my heart. Plant your feet and square your shoulders to the enemy. Meet him among the man-killing spears. Hold your ground. In victory, do not brag; in defeat, do not weep.”
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“I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into.”
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“If you want to be a different fish, jump out of school.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 
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“You've got to show your soul otherwise you're just a piece of equipment.”
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“But as Shakespeare’s Richard II boasts, ‘Not all the water in the rough rude sea/Can wash the balm off from an anointed king.”
Source : Leanda de Lisle, Leanda Lisle (2013). “Tudor: Passion. Manipulation. Murder. The Story of England's Most Notorious Royal Family”, p.27, PublicAffairs
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“What is the key to life on Earth?”
Source : "Fictional character: Master". "Ambition", www.imdb.com. 2014.
