People buy a cat and think, 'Oh that's a beautiful collar. I'll put that on, ' but that doesn't make them a responsible pet owner.

The thought of being alone when time goes on is a little bit scary sometimes, but not really.

I hope that at the end of the seven years, people will say that I have been of some inspirational value to them at home in terms of inclusiveness and abroad, I look forward to representing Ireland.

A lot of the time, I'm just smart enough to be unhappy.

I didn't really listen to rock 'n' roll until I moved to LA. We would ditch school, go get high, put on Zeppelin IV and just bug out.

They that pray in the family do well; they that pray and read the Scriptures do better; but they that pray, and read, and sing do best of all.

The first quality of a soldier is constancy in enduring fatigue and hardship. Courage is only the second. Poverty privation and want are the school of the good soldier.

And when her eyes met mine, I felt something click, like a key turning in a lock.

He who trusts himself for safety to the care of a wicked man, in seeking succor meets with ruin.

Daring is not safe against daring men.