I still occasionally need to struggle but I now fear it less. The weapons I fight it with are also my consolations: books, music, food, wine, nature.

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

As the poet says, all happy couples are alike, it's the unhappy ones who create the stories. I'm no longer a story. Happiness has made me fade into real life.

. . . breathing slowly and rubbing his palm against his chest as if to soothe his heart.

Yeah, I love being famous. It's almost like being white, y'know?

[Kandinsky] arrived, as they say, 'with snow on his boots', and it never really melted.

Life kept throwing me storms, but I kept finding rainbows.

There is something about the melody of 'Thunder Road' that just suggests 'new day.' It suggests morning it suggests something opening up.

For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.

Another Elvis will not come along. He got wasted, but it's alright.

But sometimes the best help a person can find is helping someone else.

I am like Hugh Hefner minus anything good about his life.