Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

every day a million miracles begin at sunrise!

The essence of creativity is figuring out how to use what you already know in order to go beyond what you already think.

Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.

Learners are encouraged to discover facts and relationships for themselves.

Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them.

Make knowledge of the Scripture your love ... Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.

We are storytelling creatures, and as children we acquire language to tell those stories that we have inside us.

There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.

"Thinking about thinking" has to be a principle ingredient of any empowering practice of education.

Hay que ser duro pero jamas perder la ternura.[It is necessary to be hard but never to lose the tenderness]

I do not believe that I fell in love with a woman because I was abused.

Doing is the evolution of saying.

I've never been high or drunk in my life.

Give an Irishman lager for a month and he's a dead man. An Irishman's stomach is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But whiskey polishes the copper and is the saving of him.

Sisters are a shield against life's cruel adversity.

However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.

If only you knew what bliss I find in being nothing.

I prefer to record all traumas and save them for later, playing them over and over so they can haunt me for a disproportionate number of weeks to come. It's very healthy.

The question of immortality is of its nature not a scholarly question. It is a question welling up from the interior which the subject must put to itself as it becomes conscious of itself.