A controlling man, surely a mythical creature?

The art of communication is the language of leadership.

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.

Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.

A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence.

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.

People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

The great appear great to us.

The Irish people will only be free, when they own everything from the plough to the stars

At the very dawn of history, the care of the sick was actually superior to what the great majority of mankind receive today when ill.

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.

I never sing a song the same way twice.

There are two types of pain: pain that hurts you and pain that changes you.

I have found out one thing and that is, if you have an idea, and it is a good idea, if you only stick to it you will come out all right.

You've got a man-beast, and a ho-beast.

On stage it's just a wild setting - we have a big screen - hecklers, I'm fighting. It's entertainment, but I want to pierce [the audience's] souls and have them think about what I have to say.

How many honest men do you know? Take the sinners away from the saints, you're lucky to end up with Abraham Lincoln.

You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet, when to let things take their course.

If AIG had tried to unwind their derivatives books. I don't know. It would have hit every institution in the world.