Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

Churchill wrote his own speeches. When a leader does that, he becomes emotionally invested with his utterances...If Churchill had had a speech write in 1940, Britain would be speaking German today.

Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.

I have been schooled by my own suffering: I've learned the many ways of being purged.

Nobody ever says, "Can I have your beets?

... reality stands before them, yet they don't see it, because what you call real is just the mirror image of your expectations.

Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven't thought of yet.

It's nice when people say, 'God, I've been listening to you since 1963 or 1985, or whatever.' I appreciate anybody who goes out and buys music these days.

Days of trouble must be days of prayer.

You're alive, you might as well be glad.

When you most succeed, you do so by seeming not to act at all.

Lenin, the greatest man of action in our century and at the same time the most selfless.