We are often more merciful to our animals than we are to each 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

...all that is carried alongby the stream's silvery cascade, rhythmically falling from the mountain, carried by its own current--carried where?

I think of literature - she wrote - as a vast country to the far borders of which I am journeying but cannot possibly reach. And I have started too late. I will never catch up.

intrusive government and layer upon layer of regulatory red tape. When

There is such a difference between life and theory.

As far as the path of [Bill] Goldberg and all his ultimate success, I don't think any of that was planned. It was all organic. All of it was so different.

The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside.

I was nine. I saw Orson Welles in 'Julius Caesar.' It was involving, emotional, imaginative. I've never forgotten it.

I was your quintessential nerd in high school.

What I like best is a good story with a moral.

Why does the left protest and the right doesn't? The left is a hate group.