A nation that can't remember its dead will soon cease to be worth dying for.

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

Nine out of ten significant people have to do with money or war!

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

For the more limited, if adequate, is always preferable.

People do not choose a career; the career envelopes them.

Birds, birds, birds, I'm a Pet Shop Boy

I love the idea of having a kid who says, 'Yeah, of course I knew about Billie Holiday and Johnny Cash when I was nine years old.'

Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.

Someone can always do your job a little better or faster or cheaper than you can.

Whenever a number of individuals have a common name, we assume them to have also a corresponding idea or form.

Fear first made gods in the world.