Of all the things that human beings did together, the sexual act was the one with the most various of reasons.

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

To become successful you have to dream big. Small dreams don’t have the magic to stir up passion and greatness within you.

The common theme of common sense is that it’s commonly rejected as uncommonly demanding.

I want to do it because I want to do it.

I conceive of nothing, in religion, science or philosophy, that is more than the proper thing to wear, for a while.

In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.

Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age, few scientists can afford the time for such diversion later in life.

I think that if everybody changed and tried to make their music political, it'd be kind of a bummer.

Perfection is a moving target

There are no dead-end jobs. There are no dead-end jobs. There are only dead-end people. Our current social philosophy, and the welfare state apparatus based on it, are creating more dead-end people.

I dream of starting a three-man country trio called the Chixie Dicks.