The secret of contentment is never to allow yourself to want anything which reason tells you you haven't a chance of getting.

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

Mirror Mirror on the Wall, Who's fairest of them all?I'm Mona Lisa and She is plain, But the truth is - we all are Vain.

What were several fewer species of animals compared with a hundred-mile advance and another medal on another general?

To improve your life, be prepared to make new choices and decisions.

I think mortality makes you live a fuller existence. When I was a kid I was scared of death, and maybe that's what made me desperate to get the most out of life.

From Roman times to the present, Italy has been a country to fall in love with - a tribute to all that is enduring, crazy, pagan, joyous, melancholy, at once banal and divine, in the human spirit.

Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.

Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one.

When reviewers take the trouble to compliment a writer on her style, it is usually because she has made it easy for them to slide from one sentence to another like an otter down a slope.

We were over-whelming underdogs.