Can we ever break free of the devices and desires of our own hearts? Might not our conscience be telling us what we most want to hear?

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

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

Apart from its famous healing properties, manuka has a strong, woody flavour.

I love making music and all that, but at the end of the day I don't think that's what people are going to remember about a person.

The world will try to tell you that you need stuff to be somebody. Don't listen

The best part of my life is gone, and what remains is whizzing past so quickly I feel like I'm Krazy-Glue'ed onto a mechanical bull of a time machine.

I'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing.

Words are the mind's wings, are they not?

Trust me. I'm going to make sure this healthcare bill is never, ever, ever implemented.

Everything that rises must converge.

So long as the millions live in hunger and ignorance, I hold every man a traitor who, having been educated at their expense, pays not the least heed to them.