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If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.'

Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.

It ain't bragging if you can do it.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.

Never have more children than you have car windows.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.

God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down.

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.

I've been asked why does Ireland produce so many great musicians, and the answer is it doesn't. When you count the great musicians Ireland has given the world in the last 20 years, you can do it on one hand.