What was so terrible about grief was not grief itself, but that one got over it.

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

Those unuttered words of your smile can rewrite the history of this wonderful world.

I had no vote in the making of such a law, and I have no intention of abiding by it, either.

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Your world is only as big as your intellectual level.

The first thing I know, I'm in a card game. Then I'm in a crap game.

Most government officials are rushing headlong to solve the problems of 50 years ago, with their ears assailed by the sound of snails whizzing by.

We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent - people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save.

I always feel that as the author, once I know what a character is ashamed of, then I can go about making her truthful on the page.

Copying is not theft. Because when you steal something it means the other person doesn't have it anymore.

No man alive can say, This shall not happen to me.