And yet--it is not beauty that inspires the deepest passion. Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. Beauty, without expression, tires.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.

Beauty without expression tires.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Life Is a Journey, Not a Destination.

Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

The longer you drift the more you will learn. What you learn affects the kind of person you end up turning into.

If God is truth, that truth must reign supreme on the earth even as he reigns over the universe

...and they all lived as happily as they allowed themselves to be.

At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.

The Olympics are never just about sports.

Relief spilled into me. He wanted to live. He just didn't know how.

The Red Sox didn't handle negotiations with any kind of respect for me and my family, and the Rangers were the total opposite.

Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.

The beautiful thing about TODAY is that you get the choice to make it better than YESTERDAY

A sentence has meaning in the sense that a train has a track, not that a train has a passenger.