When I’ve been anxious, it was because I believed I couldn’t handle whatever came my way and instead tried to stop life from happening.

Adam lived 930 years. He never got to know his mother in law.

You can't worry about what people say, but... People always harp on athletes being selfish individualists.

Well, I can fake my way around some things, but I don't think I would be good at betting.

I'm a true believer in prayer, a big believer in prayer.

When my friends were besotted with Jason Donovan, my heroes were Colm O'Rourke and Barney Rock

In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self-purification; and direct action.

For the first four years, no new enterprise produces profits. Even Mozart didn't start writing music until he was four.

Again, the great number of cultivated men keep each other up to a high standard. The habit of meeting well-read and knowing men teaches the art of omission and selection.

Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.

No opinion can be trusted; even the facts may be nothing but a printer's error.