Never accept ultimatums, ...

Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.
Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.
 Christopher Reeve

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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

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What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part.
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Once you choose hope, anything's possible.
 Christopher Reeve
In the second half of the 20th century, people are becoming more limited: Vocabularies are smaller, thoughts are smaller, aspirations are smaller, everything is very scaled down. Everyone is typecast.
 Christopher Reeve
We all have many more abilities and internal resources than we know. My advice is that you don't need to break your neck to find out about them.
 Christopher Reeve
What I do is based on powers we all have inside us; the ability to endure; the ability to love, to carry on, to make the best of what we have - and you don't have to be a 'Superman' to do it.
 Christopher Reeve