I think I know the delights of freedom

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.

In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.

I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death.

It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by.

...and to-morrow looked in my face more steadily than I could look at it

The poor, the illiterate, the helpless, the distressed — let these be your God.

It was regarded as almost outside the proper interest of an analyst to give systematic attention to a person's real experiences.

The depth of any story is proportionate to the protagonist's commitment to their goal, the complexity of the problem, and the grace of the solution.

I'm a pretty good winner. I'm a terrible loser. And I rub it in pretty good when I win.

I never met a Jesuit before I applied for the order.

It doesn't matter where you're from - or how you feel ... There's always peace in a strong cup of coffee.

I had many decades of me time and now I just don't have that anymore. There are days when I rail against it.

I will work and fight for stem cell research.

I am affected by what is around. I don't think many people would admit that.

After all those years of doing a live, hour-and-a-half show every week, I've got nothing more I need to prove.