What's the use of being Irish if the world doesn't break your heart?

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.

In our most vulnerable hour, it is helpful to remember our creative power.

[Scientific humanism is] the only worldview compatible with science's growing knowledge of the real world and the laws of nature.

I think every player should think that he's a difference maker.

I am attracted to the dark side of life!

You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment - a thing of the past - from what I can tell.

I'm Irish!...When I feel well I feel better than anyone, when I am in pain I yell at the top of my lungs, and when I am dead I shall be deader than anybody.

I was so nervous before going out there

With all my ideas and follies I could one day found a corporate company for the propagation of beautiful but unreliable imaginings.

I'm never satisfied. I'm always trying to get better and learn from my mistakes.

You learn to judge your friends for who they are.