It would be good for religion if many books that seem useful were destroyed. When there were not so many books and not so many arguments and disputes, religion grew more quickly than it has since.

Do you wish to be free? Then above all things, love God, love your neighbor, love one another, love the common weal; then you will have true liberty.

The only good thing that we owe to Plato and Aristotle is that they brought forward many arguments which we can use against the heretics. Yet they and other philosophers are now in hell.

The whole world knows that His glory has not been spread by force and weapons, but by poor fishermen.

I am the hailstorm that shall break the heads of those who do not take shelter.

Whoever excommunicates me, excommunicates God.

If there be no enemy, no fight; if do fight, no victory; if no victory, no crown.

Elegance of language must give way before simplicity in preaching sound doctrine.

Don't be ashamed to learn from others.

God is the best helper, but He loves to be helped. Be earnest in prayer, but do not neglect human means. You must help yourself in all manner of ways, and then the Lord will be with you.

It came from God, and so is Christ true, and Christ is thy God, who is in heaven and awaits thee.

You may never live long enough to discover who you are, but by the time you reach middle age you will hopefully realize who you are not.

You will only be great at the things you love to do.Don't pursue a career in something you hate to do.

Do you wish to take control of your life? Begin by focusing on steering the storm, rather than where the lightening strikes.

Forgotten is forgiven.

He's no Bill Clinton!

[The Republicans] are always asking the Muslims to denounce their extremists. And I agree with them. But they don't take that note and do it among their own. They don't denounce their own extremists.

Stand-up in general is the most raw form of entertainment. There is no pyrotechnics or back-up dancers, it's just live and die by your jokes, that's it.

Falling in love is easy, but somebody tell me how to stay there.

Know thy opportunity.

Desmond O'Grady is one of the senior figures in Irish Literary life, exemplary in the way he has committed himself over the decades to the vocation of poetry and has lived selflessly for the art