"Always give your best, never get discouraged, never be petty; always remember others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself."

"Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don't just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles. We've all worked with that person. That person is a drag."

"Yet such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them becuase they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere."

"The world is divided into two kinds of people, those who spend a great deal of time saving money, and those who spend a great deal of money saving time."

"The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men."

"Shame is that intrinsic meter of our own heart to tell us that we have failed to follow our own moral compass."

"Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die."

"The Irish are a fair people - they never speak well of one another"

"What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more."

"Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried."

"We must not make a scarecrow of the law, setting it up to fear the birds of prey, and let it keep one shape, till custom make it their perch and not their terror."

"Maybe I should have screwed up."