Metaphysical speculation is about as pointless as a discussion on the meaning of one's lungs. They're for breathing.

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

It's not darkness that turns off the lights in your life, it's your sadness that does it.

Controlling unwanted thoughts is not the problem. Believing, thrusting, and taking direction from them is.

The mullahs of the Islamic world and the mullahs of the Hindu world and the mullahs of the Christian world are all on the same side. And we are against them all.

God is a kooky God who can scarcely bear to be without us.

Promiscuity in men may cheapen love but sharpen thought. Promiscuity in women is illness, a leakage of identity.

Money's never an issue. I can go and work for a small studio theatre somewhere if it's a play I really care about, or do TV or a big commercial West End show.

I'm not just buying a car... I'm buying a lifestyle!

Like pleasure, beauty should be savored and enjoyed

I suppose you could never explain to the most ingenous molusk that such a creature as a whale existed.

for some reason Gale and Peeta do not coexist well in my thoughts.