Don't just plan to write - write. It is only by writing, not dreaming about it, that we develop our own style.

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

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves - their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.

An ordinary intellect will, by industry and perseverance, often accomplish more than a much superior one, deficient in energy and the power of endurance.

There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.

I love sci-fi because it leads in the imagination, and I always say it has the most intelligent fans in the world.

Few secret undertakings ever did any nation any good.

What's a celebrity anyway? Paris Hilton's a celebrity. I'm just a working actor.

Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.

Some people asked me if it was going to be a downer to come back and play on a college team after playing on a world championship team, and I don't think they understand what it is like to play here.

Neurotics would like to sleep all the time, and to be awakened only when there is good news.