"The reason you have what you have is because that is what you have decided to settle for right now. Change your mind, change your life."

“Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success.”

“Irish history having been forbidden in schools, has been, to a great extent, learned from Raftery's poems by the people of Mayo, where he was born, and of Galway, where he spent his later years.”

Source : Lady Gregory (2012). “Poets and Dreamers Studies and translations from the Irish”, p.2, tredition

“With him everything is a test, affection is measured, that given weighed against that which has been received, and the balance, more often than not, disappointing him.”

Source : S J Watson (2011). “Before I Go To Sleep”, p.351, Random House

“I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.”

Source : "Best: Decline of the golden boy". news.bbc.co.uk. June 14, 2005.

“All I say is, if you cannot ride two horses you have no right in the circus.”

Source : Opposing disaffiliation of the Scottish Independent Labour Party from the Labour Party, in 'Daily Herald' 12 January 1931 (often quoted as '...no right in the bloody circus')

“We need everybody and all that we are. We need to know and make known the complete, constantly unfolding, complicated heritage that is our black experience. We should absolutely resist the superstar, one at a time mentality that threatens the varied and resilient, flexible wealth of our Black future.”

“I want to have freedom of thought and expression - not get beaten down into some corporate existence, where there's so much risk of embracing the truth that you feel like you can't do it.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.”