"Alcohol didn't cause the high crime rates of the '20s and '30s, Prohibition did. And drugs do not cause today's alarming crime rates, but drug prohibition does."

“Language, thought, analysis, art, dance, poetry, mythmaking: these are the things that point the way toward the realm of the eschaton.”

“The mandate I have received and for which I will speak with heart and head to implement over the next seven years had its four pillars - an inclusive citizenship, equality and participation and respect in a creative society creating an excellence in everything we Irish do.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“There are some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things.”

Source : Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.203, Macmillan

“Patriotism, or the peculiar relation of an individual to his country, is like the family instinct. In the child it is a blind devotion; in the man in intelligent love. The patriot perceives the claim made upon his country by the circumstances and time of her growth and power, and how God is to be served by using those opportunities of helping mankind. Therefore his country's honor is dear to him as his own, and he would as soon lie and steal himself as assist or excuse his country in a crime.”

“I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Incarceration didnt change me. In many ways, incarceration galvanized me. The totality of the experience helped me.”

“When spectators and fans say about drunken brawls, violence, and dog fights, "Well, football players are prone to these things - that's why we admire them," they are encouraging terribly detrimental behavior. You might even say - a la Roman gladiators - they are egging on this behavior.”

Source : Source: www.psychologytoday.com

“Because faithfulness is not a human question, but a divine one.”

Source : Sebastian Barry (2008). “The Secret Scripture”, p.147, Faber & Faber