Ambition, if it were to be savored, let alone achieved, had to be rooted in possibility.

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

Through my writing, I want to build an “immortal fountain of love” where everyone can come to dance and enjoy the colorful “flow of joy” and sing along with the music of love.

Confidence comes from what you know and not from you don't know.

I don't want to judge, but I've also met women who think it's cool to be out or away from their baby, and I don't get that.

Sally Jenkins of the 'Washington Post' is the best sports columnist in the country. Second best is Gene Wojciechowski of ESPN.com, and third is Dan Wetzel on Yahoo!

Your true value is determined by how much more you give in value than you take in payment.

Life is what you make it... and nowhere close to making mine the best it can be.

I like the feeling of being able to confront an experience and resolve it as art.

The difference between Selling and Helping is just two letters.

My first acting class was taught by a little known playwright, David Mamet, who then cast me in my first play, opposite John Malkovich.

The slogan of the revolution was dignity, social justice, and freedom. You cannot have dignity or social justice or freedom without women.