We Irish are born dreamers; sometimes we never wake up at all, and then we're counted failures.

Florence - the city of tranquillity made manifest.

A good horse is the best company in the world.

Light love is desire of pleasure; great love is fear of being alone.

To give! To give without hope of recompense, without question, without fear! That was the message of life.

Most prisons have wide gates!

No weapons are more potent than brevity and simplicity.

Failure may be cruel, but success is crueller still. The gods are usurers, you know; they lend to mortals, but they exact a desperate interest.

Nobody is such an individualist as the man who advocates equality.

We have all of us the two natures - the brother and the sister! Not one of us is quite woman - not one of us is all man!

It is sacrilege to attempt analysis of birth or love or death. Death and birth, the mysteries! Love, the revelation!

When you decide to become consistent, you are telling yourself that 'I will never make another excuse again.' You have to commit to it, and most importantly believe in yourself.

God is sending forth His message of love, but you must tune in. You must be willing to listen and to receive His message and then to obey it.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

People have to take control of their own lives. Education is key because it also raises other social indicators like healthcare.

I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I'm glad I lived out both roles.

Keep your morale high, in spite of setbacks. At the end you are bound to succeed.

There is no one solution to all problems. It's the problem itself that can lead to the solution.

The gift of the Holy Ghost is as important to man as sunshine and water are to plants.

Prayer has not been a part of my life in the sense that truth has been.