If you are what you should be, you will set the whole world ablaze.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.

Life is short; live it up.

There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.

If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.

Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly, as you teach and admonish one another in all wisdom, and as you sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal, and go softly to sleep; but this must not be too much, rather a little that may be well pondered and understood, that you may find a remnant of it in your mind when you rise in the morning.

Give me somewhere to stand, and I will move the earth.

When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.