There's a very fine line between pleasure and pain. They are two sides of the same coin, one not existing without the other.

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

Our ancestors sought knowledge, but we, their descendants, glorify ignorance.

Every act of goodness it's born from our desire to be happy.

In a way, 'Like Crazy' keys into our generation, this idea of now we can still be in communication. Where do the boundaries of relationships end?

Our bodies hold our minds hostage to their whims and rhythms.

I quite fancy the 1940s. I like the trams and the trousers.

In December ring Every day the chimes; Loud the gleemen sing In the streets their merry rhymes. Let us by the fire Ever higher Sing them till the night expire!

Now what is a wedding? Well, Webster's dictionary describes a wedding as the process of removing weeds from one's garden.

We worked together with Wes Anderson writing a couple more movies together: Rushmore [1998] and Tenenbaums.

Don't be ashamed to celebrate victories that may seem small to others. Only you and God know what they really cost.

It's not just philosophy, not just words; it's knowing how the mind functions; only then can you develop loving-kindness; only then can you become a spiritual person.