When my friends were besotted with Jason Donovan, my heroes were Colm O'Rourke and Barney Rock

A Kerry footballer with an inferiority complex is one who thinks he's just as good as everybody else.

I think the Irish woman was freed from slavery by bingo. They can go out now, dressed up, with their handbags and have a drink and play bingo. And they deserve it.

God created seaweed… The seaweed made the world.

One who conquers fear conquers his greatest enemy.

Whenever life is getting tough hold on.Don't let it get the best of you stay strong.

It is past time for Republican leadership to answer for record deficits and reckless spending, both in Iraq and in the U.S. It's time for a plan to bring our troops home.

In a strange way the spiritual life isn't "useful" or "successful." But it is meant to be fruitful. And fruitfulness comes out of brokenness.

I do feel, in a sense, the rules of engagement for citizenship has changed, and we must encourage other people to speak up and to take action.

With few words I shall make thee understand my soul.

If you love, absolutely love what you are doing, chances are excellent that you will succeed. There is nothing so exhausting as working on a job you don't like.

The question nowadays is not what makes government work. The question is how do we make it stop.

A form of art that I like is portraiture. I've been thinking about portraiture, and its relationship to writing and literature, biography and autobiography, and so that will be my next thing.

I think you start to prepare the minute you read something.