My life is a struggle.
Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.
Dare to think for yourself.
Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.
The ear is the avenue to the heart.
All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
In failing circumstances no one can be relied on to keep their integrity.
I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.
Intellectual work is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.
Flow with whatever may happen, and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder.
Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
The walking of Man is falling forwards.
Branching streams cannot compare to the source.
O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
The test of a man or woman’s breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
