Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England - Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation.

No man has a right to fix the boundary of the march of a nation; no man has a right to say to his country - thus far shalt thou go and no further.

Do what is beyond your strength even should you fail sometimes.

No man has the right to say to his country

Get the advice of everybody whose advice is worth having - they are very few - and then do what you think best yourself.

You must show him, by leaving him severely alone.

One of the most conspicuous modes of escape is alcoholism, which is now a national catastrophe.

If you life is an example of glorifying God, others won't see your good works and glorify YOU, because they'll know what you are doing is for God's glory.

Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.

The teacher is commodified, the school is a shop, the subjects are consumer goods. To read, to think, to reflect, isn't a question of want, it's a question of need.

The worst thing is the day you realize you want to win more than the players do.

Send home my long strayed eyes to me, Which (Oh) too long have dwelt on thee.

If we were humble, nothing would change us-neither praise nor discouragement. If someone were to criticize us, we would not feel discouraged. If someone would praise us, we also would not feel proud.

We're being trained through our incarnations--trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering.

Men do cry, but only when assembling furniture.

Being employed is like being loved: you know that somebody's thinking about you the whole time.