Putting my face in food is not a habit I have unless I'm really drunk.

Some people think to be strong is to never feel pain. However the strongest people are the ones that have felt pain, understood it, accepted it and learned from it.

So, because I have a mental illness I should disappear and hide? Ever since I went into hospital, all I have heard and read about is people telling me what they think I should do.

Life is education.

Parents are impelled by the profit motive - nothing more, nothing less. For their attentions, they expected, from me, the immense dividend of greatness.

He (Winston Churchill) mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen. . . .

People can so easily be tempted by slackness... and by money.

My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia

Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.

I worry about financial security, and the older I get the more I worry about it.

It only takes one person to make a change...Let it begin with you.

The fact is, I've always felt more British than Irish. Maybe it was the way I was brought up, I don't know, but I have always felt more of a connection with the U.K. than with Ireland.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication-- Steve Jobs turned this into the slogan behind an early Mac advertising campaign. Which doesn't make it less true.