I find it hard to see how my northern cousins could get so worked up about counties created by British imperialists.

You should keep a photograph of Mick Lyons on the mantlepiece to keep children away from the fire

In every person there is the capacity to do something really special.

Of course, not everything is unsayable in words, only the living truth.

The wisest man knows he know nothing.

Your regrets aren't what you did, but what you didn't do. So I take every opportunity.

A true teacher should penetrate to whatever is vital in his pupil, and develop that by the light and heat of his own intelligence.

... the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking a part of the truth for the whole.

We are not the personalities that our egos are so valiantly defending. Our personalities are simply the result of our current programming.

We cannot be speakers who do not listen. But neither can we be listeners who do not speak.

We must love men more than things, and I admire and weep more for the soldiers than for the churches which were only the recording of an heroic gesture which today is reenacted at every moment.

I prefer to break new ground, but it gets harder and harder with the territory that's already been walked on.

A bird sings, a child prattles, but it is the same hymn; hymn indistinct, inarticulate, but full of profound meaning.