Dangers lurk in all systems. Systems incorporate the unexamined beliefs of their creators. Adopt a system, accept its beliefs, and you help strengthen the resistance to change

Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.

No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer.

This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves.

The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.

I never thought it would be easy to serve God, " she said. "I just didn't think it would be this hard.

We had something few experience. We were joined in our strengths rather than in our weaknesses.

It is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.

Only fools prefer the past!

It has occurred to me more than once that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.

A healer is someone who seeks to be the light that she wishes she had in her darkest moments.

Variety may be the spice of life, but consistency pays the bills.

The glass is always completely full-half air and half liquid.

A deep level of personal engagement is key to good writing and complete immersion by the writer will translate into a richer and more engaging experience for the reader.

Oh, baby. You have no idea what I’d do to get through those layers and down to the good stuff.

Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.

We do not run government on whims of an individual, our progress is reforms driven, our reforms are policy driven and our policies are people driven.

I was 100 percent sure when I left university that I was going to be a painter.

As a kid growing up in the back streets of Dublin I used to pretend I was playing in the World Cup with my mates out on the streets, and now I will be doing it for real.

To call me a woman is very nice.