In the service, when a man gives you his word, his word is binding. In politics, you never know.

If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.

For every obstacle there is a solution. Persistence is the key. The greatest mistake is giving up!

The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.

To be true to one's own freedom is, in essence, to honor and respect the freedom of all others.

To anyone with a drop of Irish blood in them the land they live on is like their mother. It's the only thing that lasts, that's worth working for, for fighting for...

What if I pulled through and the pious faction contentedly claimed that their prayers had been answered? That would somehow be irritating.

Intercession is more than specific: it is pondered: it requires us to bear on our heart the burden of those for whom we pray.

As far as I can tell, it's just about letting the universe know what you want and then working toward it while letting go of how it comes to pass.

It was a great Olympics - Team USA finished the games with 17 more medals than China. China said it was tough to swallow - especially when they had to make all of our "We're #1" T-shirts.

I don't blame anyone for not believing me, if I had not experienced it myself, I would not have believed it myself.

I am convinced that words are things, and we simply don't have the machinery to measure what they are. I believe that words are tangible things.

You can insist on a different end to the story.

Women don't ask to be raped, but there are some that are asking to be motorboated

Martin Luther King was never an up close and personal figure in the United States.