Richard Burton

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."

"The secret of my success is that I have always wanted to die."

"I don't want to be remembered as just a pretty face."

"Time is our most precious resource, yet we treat it as if we have an endless supply."

"The greatest power on earth is not money, it is knowledge."

"I have loved to the point of madness."

"In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future."

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."

"I'll pay any price for a good story."

"One must have the courage to admit one's mistakes."

"Life is a process of becoming. You are not your past."

"I have always been a wanderer. It is the curse of my restless spirit."

"The mind can develop in the way it chooses to develop."

"I believe in discipline. I have always been a disciplined person."

"What profiteth a man if he gains the whole world and loses himself?"

"Great art transcends the personal and touches on the universal."

"Respect is earned through action."

"I speak with the tongue of men and angels, if I have not charity, I am but a sounding brass."

"The greatest actors listen more than they speak."

"I am firmly convinced that there are too many people in the world."

"Work is the only thing in life that gives me satisfaction."

"The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power."

"I believe that nothing is impossible if you set your mind to it."

"I have never written anything without reading it aloud."

"Patience is not a natural virtue, it must be cultivated."

"The most wasted day of all is one in which we have not laughed."

"I would do anything for love, but I won't do that."

"The world is full of fools and I am one of them."

"Fear is the only thing that keeps us from achieving our dreams."

"I have always believed that the best medicine is work."