Everyone has to blame something for the way the world is.
If you can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress.
Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.
The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service
Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, right people, right materials.
From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are the inheritors, and hence the prisoners, of attitudes of scorn and disdain for other faiths – outlooks which are not ennobling to anyone.
It is not important to have said a thing first, or best - or even most interestingly. What is important is to say it on the right occasion.
Being an Irishwoman means many things to me. An Irishwoman is strong and feisty. She has guts and stands up for what she believes in. She believes she is the best at whatever she does and proceeds through life with that knowledge. She can face any hazard that life throws her way and stay with it until she wins. She is loyal to her kinsmen and accepting of others. She's not above a sock in the jaw if you have it coming.
I'm singing for the love of itHave mercy on the man who sings to be adored.
Stop your grinnin and drop your linen
It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.