My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.

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

Today it is cheaper to start a business than tomorrow.

You can measure the true strength of a man by how well he controls others, but you measure his true power by how well he controls himself

They are simple people, most of them, but that doesn't make them subhuman.You are telling them Jesus loves them, but not much.

You never seem to run out of ways to blow my mind, Lexie. You’re my best friend, and you’re the one woman I can imagine spending the rest of my life with. Do you know how lucky that makes me?

So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.

I've been surprised to learn how many people love poetry. It's beautiful to see that people want poetry in their lives.

Ah, music, sacred tongue of God! I hear thee calling and I come.

We're losing all our jobs. Look at Indiana. One of the reasons I won Indiana is because Carrier just announced they are leaving for Mexico.

Potential is an excuse to procrastinate; Ambition is a means to thrive.

Sometimes I wish I had taken the Bob Dylan route and sang songs where my voice would not go out on me every night, so I could have a career if I wanted.