The incorruptible things are all within the narrow gate. The peace of God which passed all understanding – the bright hope of good things to come – the sense of the Spirit dwelling in us – the consciousness that we are forgiven, safe, insured, provided for in time and eternity, whatever may happen – these are true gold, and lasting riches.

Talent survives and remains while beauty is diluted.

You know what lasts longer than beauty? Being smart.

It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last.

A person’s first duty, a young person’s at any rate, is to be ambitious, and the noblest ambition is that of leaving behind something of permanent value.

I just want to make music that matters, that people will remember for a long time.

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

If a girl have beef with me, she gon’ have beef with me forever

A good moral character is the first essential in a man, and that the habits contracted at your age are generally indelible, and your conduct here may stamp your character through life. It is therefore highly important that you should endeavour not only to be learned but virtuous.

But lest some unlucky event should happen unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.

Time is passing…yet for the United States of America, there will be no forgetting September the 11th.

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.

When I do shows, I take pictures and make the fans feel like family. All of that really matters. That’s the cheat code if you ain’t got a hit.

It really doesn’t matter what’s going on right now. The only thing that matters is what you’re going to do about it. Do something powerful.

God willing I would like to keep on going. I listened to [blues singer] Alberta Hunter in New York a few years ago. She was eighty-two at the time and it was really wonderful to hear the experience in this woman’s voice. You knew that she knew what she was talking about and when she said ‘God bless you’ at the end of her set, you really did feel blessed.

There are some teams and logos you see, no matter where you are in the world, and you know exactly who they are and what they mean.

We’ll see what happens when I no longer exist.

Pain is temporary, film is forever.

I don’t think I ever expected anything like an Oscar ever, to tell you the truth. That is not my motivation when I do these roles. I really am motivated by being able to work with great people and create a body of work that I can look back and be proud

When a role for a young guy is being offered to me, I think of River Phoenix. It feels like a loss.

You learn after you’ve been in the business for a while that it’s not getting your face recognized that’s the payoff. It’s having your film remembered.

I really am motivated by being able to work with great people and create a body of work that I can look back and be proud of.

Whoever is ungrateful sooner or later will fall

That which is not required by the circumstances is unnecessary

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

The Hamilton name will live on way beyond me now, which I’m very happy to be a part of.