You can't make the other fellow feel important in your presence if you secretly feel that he is a nobody

If you are not using your smile, you're like someone with a million dollars in the bank and no checkbook.

What counts is a way to get along with people that will bring us personal satisfaction and, at the same time, not trample upon the egos of those we deal with.

There is a hunger in every human being for approval.

Only those person who learned to like themselves can be generous and friendly with others.

We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.

Even after making up one's mind to the sacrifices Ihad decided upon, there is always left a trace of envyfor those who have triumphed in the melancholystruggle for literary supremacy

What is a committee? A group of the unwilling picked from the unfit to do the unnecessary.

Culture change means we will do things differently.

Education, like faith, is the evidence of things not seen.

Anakana Schofield is part of a new wave of wonderful Irish fiction-international in scope and electrically alive.

Dear God, I surrender this thought to you, for I would see the miracle that lies behind it. Amen.

For a true disciple, the repetition of the mantra is like food.

A first-person voice helps to ensure the uniformity and cohesiveness of the narrative; it gathers unto itself incidents and characters in its unstoppable progress toward the story's end.

I got to the point where I was sick of fashion again, like I was at the end of high school.