Generosity is a virtue for individuals, not governments. When governments are generous it is with other people’s money, other people’s safety, other people’s future.

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

Wenn man nachts nicht schläft, werden Träume wahr.

We all fall sometime, you're not the first. I know it hurts. In the end, you'll find what you deserve.

It's a very old idea that patience leads to skills, of course - but it seems urgent now that we go further than this and think about patience itself as the skill to be learned.

To be one woman truly wholly is to be all women. Tend one garden and you will birth worlds.

I think any time you take on touchy subjects, you're going to offend some people, or you're going to please others.

The most important thing for any of us to be in our jobs is curious.

My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible.

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

If all men are born free, why is it that all women are born slaves?

Once a person gains experience and a good reputation, it takes less and less money to create bigger and bigger investments.