When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity.

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

There might come a day when you will have to fly alone. Don't be afraid. Your wings will take you to ridiculously beautiful places that you never knew existed.

A woman is a poem, a man is a report

Never tease an old dog

I'm hoping one day I can make one really good film.

I can't rhyme for little green apples. What I can do is scan and make patterns.

Spinsterhood is Nature's Own Feminism.

You don't need fancy sneakers to run fast

A man can lose sight of everything else when he's bent on revenge, and it ain't worth it.

I've always been a lazy lip-syncher. But what's always worked for me is to break things down. I'm a visual learner, so I need to see it.

I was in too much haste, and now have no time left. I traded all the sunlight and the cities and the distant lands for a handful of power, for a shadow, for the dark.