You don't go to Notre Dame to learn something, you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Remember. Every day, some ordinary person does something extraordinary. Today, it's your turn.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.

Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that's the difference.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.

We aren't where we want to be; we aren't where we ought to be; but thank goodness we aren't where we used to be.

Let it be said...that it was our generation that truly made a difference and that it was our guiding lights of love, peace and kindness that helped us.

Empty teacups gathered around her and dictionary pages fell at her feet.

pg. 301--"Saturday the weather couldn't decide if it was ready to fully entertain winter or if we were still stuck in the fall."pg.349--"...winter showed up in an angry, punishing fury...

In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate.

In the end there is a choice. And my choice is to be against the occupation, and not only the occupation but the whole system of discrimination and dispossession.

I know my own heart to be entirely English.

This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.

I'm not sure that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama know that we're at war.

I do object to the sensationalism or even the voyeurism of doing things in church or out of church.

Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me pegged, because of the way I am, the way I talk. And they're always wrong.