Prayer is not getting man's will done in heaven, but getting God's will done on earth. It is not overcoming God's reluctance but laying hold of God's willingness.

For we must share, if we would keep, that blessing from above; ceasing to give, we cease to have; such is the law of love.

Nothing is true but Love, nor aught of worth; Love is the incense which doth sweeten earth.

None but God can satisfy the longings of an immortal soul; that as the heart was made for Him, so He only can fill it.

We live not in our moments or our years: The present we fling from us like the rind Of some sweet future, which we after find Bitter to taste.

The sin of pride is the sin of sins; in which all subsequent sins are included, as in their germ; they are but the unfolding of this one.

Sin may be clasped so close, we cannot see its face.

Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.

Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved.

Common sense meant once something very different from that plain wisdom, the common heritage of men, which we now call by this name.

The present is only intelligible in the light of the past.

So much does suffering blunt even the coarsest sensations of men

Reviewing a book written by someone you're living with and sleeping with is, needless to say, wrong.

As a young man on the streets of Derry, I saw Ian Paisley as an immortal opponent of everything to do with equality, justice, fairness, and respect for Irishness.

Health insurance needs to be affordable and available for everyone, not just the wealthy. I will always fight to improve the access, level of care, and affordability of health care.

I'm not going to name some of my colleagues who are very well-known for their television presentation, but they wouldn't know new information or how to report a story if it came up and bit them.

Everybody wants to be famous. You have to be ready to deal with consequences.

It was an interesting way to come across in my first big role. To work with Robert DeNiro was very exciting.

He who sees without loving is only straining his eyes in the darkness.

I learned a lot from not having success, and realizing when you do have success, how hard it is to maintain it, and what you have to do to maintain it.

I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.