I think here I will leave you. It has come to seemthere is no perfect ending.Indeed, there are infinite endings.Or perhaps, once one begins, there are only endings.

You know, he said, our work is difficult: we confrontmuch sorrow and disappointment.He gazed at me with increasing frankness.I was like you once, he added, in love with turbulence.

Pactum serva" - "Keep the faith

No pain is too small if it hurts, but any pain is too big if it's cherished.

The Irish way of telling a story is a complex and elaborate one, complete with wild exaggerations, a certain delight in improbable fantasy, and a heightened sense of drama.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

I do not respect the Dalai Lama. He's a political power broker. The Dalai Lama is not honorable to me.

The total efforts of the last 20 years of climate policy has likely reduced global emissions by less than 1 percent, or about 250 million metric tons of carbon dioxide per year.

Transforming the European Union into a single State with one army, one constitution and one foreign policy is the critical challenge of the age

It's a new normal and I really do think that global weirding is the best way to describe what we're seeing.

I hate picking favourite books. I usually tend to stay away from all the 'top record' and 'favourite song' and 'favourite book', and I just think it doesn't do any good for anybody.

There is a little gland in the brain in which the soul exercises its functions in a more particular way than in the other parts.