Read widely and with discrimination. Bad writing is contagious.

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

...You mistake other people’s success as your own failure...

The essence of death is discovered in the gap between one moment ceasing and another one beginning. That essence is the wakefulness that is our true nature.

Life is a jig saw puzzle with most of the pieces missing.

Everybody deserves a second chance in this world. That's basically all I ask.

A new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken...

World communism is like [a] malignant parasite which feeds on diseased tissue

When I’m reaching an audience, I feel it.

I am always jumping into the sausage grinder and deciding, even before I’m half ground, that I don’t want to be a sausage after all.

Mel Gibson's father doesn't think there was a Holocaust? Great. I don't think there's a movie. We're even.

It drops down to a place I ain't going.