There is too little public recognition of how much we all depend upon farmers as stewards of our soil, water and wildlife resources.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.

No responsibility of government is more fundamental than the responsibility of maintaining the highest standard of ethical behavior for those who conduct the public business.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Don't pray for an easy life, pray to be a stronger man.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

I wasn't good at being affable. You get beyond that and realise the attraction in any human being has more to do with what they give to someone rather than just being face candy.

Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.

Could he actually be my muirn beatha dan?

Pity a thing often avowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed.

If you remain unsettled by a piece of writing, it means you are not watching the story from the outside; you've already taken a step toward it.

When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don't get to decide that you didn't.

Content has no economic value unless it's shared and it's acted on.

Everybody has their reasons.

Old wives' tales are not enough in a day when old wives and old men, too, are constantly moving away from their labours.