One always starts work with the subject, no matter how tenuous it is, and one constructs an artificial structure by which one can trap the reality of the subject-matter that one has started from.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.

Beauty is everywhere you look, but you have to look.

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

My will is free and connected to my Spirit. When I exercise my free will, I am calm, at peace and serene.

[H]e was still young enough to think that there was something fundamentally inhuman about thinking more than one step ahead at a time.

You’re a good boy. I wish you didn’t have to be quite so good

When you have both parties who will not find ways to compromise, who won't meet in the middle, you have paralysis. It's the perversion of idealism.

You don't know what you like, you like what you know. In order to know what you like, you have to know everything.

Dublin City was quiet when they reached the Waxwork Museum, as if it was holding its breath.

Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.

I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen.