"How people talk to each other absolutely determines how well the organization will function."

“You find out a lot about yourself through athletics. If you're cut out to be a winner or a failure or a quitter, athletics will bring it out of you. You're always stripping yourself down to the bones of your personality. And sometimes you just get a glimpse of the kind of talent you've been given. Sometimes I run and I don't even feel the effort of running. I don't even feel the ground. I'm just drifting. Incredible feeling. All the agony and frustration, they're all justified by one moment like that.”

“Today is ours; what do we fear? Today is ours: we have it here. Let's treat it kindly, that it may Wish at least with us to stay.”

“Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.”

Source : "Best You Ever: 365 Ways to be Richer, Happier, Thinner, Smarter, Younger, Sexier, and More Relaxed - Each and Every Day". Book by Rebecca Swanner (p. 324), October 18, 2010.

“The measure of happiness is merely the difference between expectations and outcomes. It is not concerned with what one possesses – it is concerned with how content one is with what one possesses.”

Source : Cecilia Dart-Thornton (2011). “The Lady of the Sorrows”, p.13, Pan Macmillan

“Soccer is my first love. Ive been playing since I was 4 years old. I traveled the world doing it. I broke my leg when I was 16 or 17, and acting kind of filled the void.”

“Interesting people always have a past.”

“Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.”

Source : Gerry Adams speech in Belfast, news.bbc.co.uk. April 6, 2005.

“It's frustrating to do albums that you think are worth listening to, but it's just so difficult to cut through.”