Years in themselves mean nothing. How we live them means everything.

I sometimes think that the prevalent use of external cosmetics eats out the internal brain if persisted in long enough.

The praise of injudicious friends frequently fosters bad mannerisms.

Throughout my life, I have always found that events which seemed at the time disastrous ultimately developed into positive blessings.

Popular magazines multiply while the library shelves remain undisturbed.

No influence so quickly converts a radical into a reactionary as does his election to power.

Storehouses filled with merchandise will prove a better guarantee than arsenals bulging with ammunition.

No wars are more bitter than those undertaken in the name of religion.

Adapt to your surrounding but remain flexible for growing.

Losing fights, or even winning fights, can be heartbreaking, and you can throw that away, but the truth is that it does make our lives better.

Are you or aren't you convinced that weakness is a man's condition? How can you raise yourself if you haven't fallen first?

Sinn Fein has productively taken the example of South Africa and, as we develop the peace process, we continue to use examples from South Africa.

What you manage in business is people

I'm satisfied to have an ordinary success and an ordinary life and an ordinary income. Later, I don't know.

I'm very open, I love music and I love people so you need to know what's going on.

Happiness is no other than soundness and perfection of mind.

Everybody dies. There's nothing you can do about it. Whether you eat six almonds a day. Whether or not you believe in God.

I don't accept flowers. I take nothing perishable.