“Take the time to make some sense for what you wanna say,And cast your words away upon the waves.Sail them home with acquiesce on a ship of hope today,And as they land upon the shore,Tell them not t...”

“(on learning Westlife had beaten Oasis, U2 and The Beatles in an album chart battle in November 2006): There is no God.”

“He's like a man with a fork, in a world of soup. (about his brother Liam)”

“If I ever get to go to the moon, Ill probably just stand on the moon and go Hmmm, yeahfair enoughgotta go home now.”

“When you get to a certain age you find that other peoples opinions dont really matter anymore, and you get kind of uncomfortable with your place in modern life.”

“True perfection has to be imperfect. I know that sounds foolish, but it's true.”

“Some people think football [soccer] is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.”

“Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.”

“Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.”

“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It aint no disgrace to be po...”

“Youve changed me forever. And Ill never forget you.”

“Eduardo Galeano notes that America was conquered, but not discovered, that the men who arrived with a religion to impose and dreams of gold never really knew where they were, and that this discover...”

“They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they had killed themselves at the sight of used tires stacked high...”

“The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.”

“If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo, we have but one choice: to take the world as a whole and...”