Great literature cannot grow from a neglected or impoverished soil. Only if we actually tend or care will it transpire that every hundred years or so we might get a Middlemarch.

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

No. Don't give up hope just yet. It's the last thing to go. When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope.

It is not what you look at, but rather what you see that matters. Set your focus right.

We need transparency in government spending. We need to put each government expenditure online so every Floridian can see where their tax money is being spent.

Setting goals that have already been achieved is a cop-out.

Only as one is willing to give up his present limitations and identity can he become that which he desires to be.

Every historical moment needs the stories to be told about it.

Preparation is good, but customers need results.

I would not recommend a teen getting into modeling if they're not solid when it comes to their grades and school. That comes first.

I do oppose My patience to his fury, and am arm'd To suffer, with a quietness of spirit, The very tyranny and rage of his.

I have to stop crying when I watch "The View". It's not because of the topics at hand, I just feel sorry for that couch.