Ah, Ireland... That damnable, delightful country, where everything that is right is the opposite of what it ought to be.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Men and women...sill live together for centuries without agreeing on anything.

Talent alone can't give you a gold medal.There is practise, there is hard work and there is a will to succeed.

The more I've done work with the IOC the more I've come to realize I'm really excited about this, the work that I'm doing and the impact that I can have if I'm fully committed to it.

Every single line means something.

The Lord uses his flail of tribulation to separate the chaff from the wheat.

My first love is acting on stage. A sitcom is a hybrid of stage and film.

There is no such thing as a permanent advertising success.

Be a gift and a benediction.

A transcendent being can be any miracle.

And much it grieved my heart to think What man has made of man.