Colum McCann Quote

Before you're given what you want, you'll first be tested with what you don't really want.

Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.

His room was a sickly dual-tone of crimson and charcoal, like an Untitled Rothko, the colours bleeding into each other horribly and then rather serenely. The overall effect was overwhelmingly unapolog...

The concept of leadership is abused by people who think a person becomes a leader when he grows grey hair, put into a position and expected to function. Everyone has a leadership potential carried wit...

I once took a poo in the woods while hunched over like an animal. It was AWESOME.

If we could get your subconscious mind to agree with your conscious mind about being happy, that's when your positive thoughts work.

If I have one piece of advice to give you all about what to search for in your quest for What Next, it's to find where the line blurs between hard work and happiness for you. To find that thing where...

I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art.

People that have a police car behind them pulling them over should put on their hazard lights and continue slowly driving to the nearest densely populated public place, such as a supermarket or shoppi...

Until you develop the courage to pursue that dream in your heart, you will never reach your true potential.