I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense.

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

Life is a book waiting to happen.

Bravery is not the absence of fear but the forging ahead despite being afraid

Like so many substantial citizens of America, he had married young and kept on marrying, springing from blonde to blonde like the chamois of the Alps leaping from crag to crag.

...The existence or non-existence of an undefined 'god' are quite poin

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

I'd overlooked the obvious because my focus had always been elsewhere! All along, this that I had been seeking was already here.

I've had three biographies made about my life so people know an awful lot about me.

There's a lot of me in Captain Jack and there's a lot of Captain Jack in me. And there is no pun intended.

I think, as a writer, I'm in my own head.

Memory cannot exist without endurance of the things perceived, and the thing perceived cannot remain where it has never been.