"Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity."

“It is necessary for every American, with becoming energy to endeavor to stop the dissemination of principles evidently destructive of the cause for which they have bled. It must be the combined virtue of the rulers and of the people to do this, and to rescue and save their civil and religious rights from the outstretched arm of tyranny, which may appear under any mode or form of government.”

“Man is happy only as he finds work worth doing - and does it well”

“I pray, but who I pray to I'm not exactly sure, especially when I'm praying for more money.”

Source : Interview with David Jacob Kramer, believermag.com. June 1, 2009.

“Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.”

“Sometimes as you work, you find that you are learning things about your own perceptions and motivations that are way below you consciousness. If you get lucky, you recognize what you are doing, but all too often we don't find the connection between our work and our own motivations.”

“Amongst Women concentrated on the family, and the new book concentrates on a small community. The dominant units in Irish society are the family and the locality. The idea was that the whole world would grow out from that small space.”

Source : "The whole world in a community" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2002.

“Oh, my gosh, thirty-eight hundred children are going to die tomorrow. What am I going to do to actually save some of them?”

Source : "The Intensity Gap". Interview with Kelefa Sanneh, www.newyorker.com. October 27, 2014.

“I'm in love with golf, and I want everybody else to share my love affair.”