All a writer wants is to be read, and people are so flattering and lovely. I mean, there are witches out there as well. But most are so kind.

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

Every place there's people, there's badness.

I don't say Valancy deliberately murdered these lovers as she outgrew them. One simply faded away as another came. Things are very convenient in this respect in Blue Castles.

He wouldn't hear of anybody's paying taxes, though he was very patriotic.

He who knows most grieves most for wasted time.

Approve not of him who commends all you say.

And Seinfeld is so quick: we crank out one show a week, and the hours are very reasonable

I think I might like to try film again just as an experiment, but I know that I could never do the mainstream thing again.

I've never been that person who wants a Rolls Royce or wants to live in a mansion or what have you.

You know, my first album, some of those jokes I'd done for twelve years because I couldn't throw 'em out.

I'm not a genetically superior person. I built my body.