Stubborness we deprecate, Firmness we condone, The former is our neighbors trait, The latter is our own.

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Passion is momentary love is enduring.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character.

Even in the heart of America, if a small city is not connected in some demonstrable fashion to other continents, it is dead.

Make faithfulness and truth thy masters: have no friends unlike thyself: be not ashamed to mend thy faults.

In dealing with the press, do yourself a favor, stick with one of three responses: (a) I know and I can tell you; (b) I know and I can't tell you; (c) I don't know.

Everything I ever learned I was told by someone else.

We all need people to tell us that we were the ones who had been deeply wronged.

Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, There's no place like home.

The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.

I love heroes that really go through ordeals and then come out the other end completely changed.

Women like flames have a destroying power; never to be quenched till they themselves devour.