The self persists like a dying star, In sleep, afraid.

Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.

When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.

We think we listen, but very rarely do we listen with real understanding, true empathy. Yet listening, of this very special kind, is one of the most potent forces for change that I know.

Growth occurs when individuals confront problems, struggle to master them, and through that struggle develop new aspects of their skills, capacities, views about life.

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

As no one else can know how we perceive, we are the best experts on ourselves.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

A person cannot teach another person directly; a person can only facilitate another's learning

We ought to be living as if Jesus died yesterday, rose this morning, and is coming back this afternoon.

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Nothing' isn't better or worse than anything. Nothing is just... nothing." Arya Stark

Predictions of failure have never stopped those whose ambitions are driven by their unwavering vision.

While the sun is shining on you, solve all your problems or else you shall be lost forever in the darkness!

Daily living by faith on Christ is what makes the difference between the sickly and the healthy Christian, between the defeated and the victorious saint.

It was like the Colosseum in Rome and we were the Christians.

Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller.

by the general love of scandal and detraction in Dublin, one might reasonably imagine they were all to feed themselves through the holes which they had made in the characters of others.

With God, nothing is lost; but without him, everything is lost.

Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all - they produced an oyster.

That intermediate manifestation of the divine process which we call the DNA code has spent the last 2 billion years making this planet a Garden of Eden.