All fiction is largely autobiographical and much autobiography is, of course, fiction.

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

The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination of matter to be at peace.

There is no loss in any loss...if you recognize it!

The little broken doll was no more.

My different personalities leave me in peace now.

I think they're more looking at these two candidates. It's a band of voters with which neither candidate has very high approval ratings.

Knowing that something is wrong and doing it anyway happens very often in life, and I doubt I will ever know why.

I grew up listening to albums by Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix, and they all worked on that multi-layered level.

Life is so fast and it can change in an instant.

Every conversation is a form of Jazz. The activity of instantaneous creation is as ordinary to us as breathing.

What is this universe but name and form?