A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth.

Live each day as if your life had just begun.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.

Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

Despite the company of friendship we still have ourselves to reckon with at the end of the day.

Fear uncovers the impossible, while faith uncovers the possible.

If E.F. Harriman paid me what he's paying those guys to stop me from robbing him, I'd stop robbing him.

I have faith that my life is in good hands. I honestly try to see how I can grow from uncomfortable circumstances.

Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century.

I've decided to keep working until my last kid is thu college.

The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

O Death, made proud with pure and princely beauty!