We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community， against his will， is to prevent harm to others.

艺术是一种抵抗的形式。

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

The whole world is a story, and I’m trying to tell it.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

领导力不是掌控，而是关怀那些托付给你的人。