We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

A good conscience is an epitome of good life and a true standard of living

Every weekend, I fall in love again. By Sunday, the last thing I want to do is let her go, release her back into the cold water of life.

As a driver you enjoy winning races and, if you win in the easiest way possible, fine, but in reality we all remember the fights to the end, the nip-and-tuck stuff.

It feels great to be home, great to be back as a part of the community.

By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.

Dance music has pushed its way into the mainstream. Which is good for me.

Surely there is no greater garden for human-nature study than the flotsam and jetsam of the hospital.

Our bodies are just temporary vessels for our souls, which will go on forever. You really are an extension of the power that created the whole universe, no matter what drags you have on.

‎You cannot correct an old person every time they say something offensive. You would never make it through Thanksgiving dinner!

I don't think there's anything outside what comedy can address.