the most successful marriages were always based on both partners feeling that they had done rather well for themselves.

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 were two immediate results of my forced loneliness: I began to find company in books, and greater pleasure in music.

Angels around us, angels beside us, angels within us. Angels are watching over you when times are good or stressed. Their wings wrap gently around you, whispering you are loved and blessed.

Be classy. Anything but trashy.

The collector walks with blinders on; he sees nothing but the prize. In fact, the acquisitive instinct is incompatible with true appreciation of beauty.

We reject all efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others.

Now I'm a warrior Now i've got thicker skin I'm a warrior I'm stronger than i've ever been And my amor Is made of steel you can't get in i'm a warrior And you can never hurt me again

You cannot go against nature. She is stronger than the strongest of men. We can permit ourselves some liberties, but in details only.

To reap a perpetual harvest you need to sow a perpetual seed. I got a need for seed.

There are moments when one can neither think nor feel, she thought, and if one can neithre feel nor think, where's one?

I think the reason you see so many people dropping out of politics is because there's an anti-poetic strain in modern political discourse.