I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as that was. I came to London and in a few months I was a Trotskyist.

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

A sense of solidarity among fifteen-to-thirty-year-olds would be a menace to civilized society even in the best of times.

Singing about being rescued will never get old. Never.

I just find it interesting that kids apparently used to cry when Bambi's mother died. George and I both held our breaths, and then cheered when she didn't reanimate and try to eat her son.

I didn't answer, but, please—nothing is obvious with boys. For such simple creatures, they are quite baffling.

We keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults until we at last come to look upon them as virtues.

In order for the light of gratitude and happiness to shine so brightly, the darkness of how it could be worse must be present.

It makes no sense to talk of the social obligations of the corporation without reference to its economic obligations. The two are intertwined.

I can't think of a better model for Haiti rebuilding than Rwanda.

Ronald Reagan is the world's largest Muppet.

I think it's very hard for coaches to work with me. They'll no doubt have a good CV afterwards, but at the same time they're under a lot of pressure.