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“Sometimes doubting is not a lack of faith, but an expression of it. Sometimes to doubt is to merely insist that God be taken seriously not frivolously, to insist that our faith is placed in and upheld by something other than seeming conjuring tricks.”
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“You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you'll find a way to get it done.”
Source : "The Mental Edge: Maximize Your Sports Potential with the Mind-body Connection". Book by Kenneth Baum and Richard Trubo, 1999.
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“Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.”
Source : Louisa May Alcott (2009). “Work: A Story of Experience: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.305, ReadHowYouWant.com
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“I come from a pretty working-class neighborhood in Chicago. Hard work was just expected of you. It wasn't some noble thing you did; it was a prerequisite. It's what a man did. You get up, you put on your boots, and you work hard. We've lost a lot of that, I'm afraid.”
Source : "Conquer Your Shortcomings". Interview with J. Rentilly, www.menshealth.com. December 15, 2011. 
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“Call them pros, call them mercenaries - but in fact they are just grown - up kids who have learned on the frozen creek or flooded corner lot that hockey is the greatest thrill of all.”
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“We will use all lawful tools at our disposal, and that includes authorities under the renewed PATRIOT Act. We firmly believe that our intelligence gathering tools must enable us to collect the information we need to protect the American people.”
Source : "Strengthening our Security by Adhering to our Values and Laws". John O. Brennan's Speech at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 16, 2011.
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“I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom and with whom I desired only to live; yet the dreadful apprehensions I have of what is coming upon this land may help to make me submissive to this providence, though more bitter.”
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“The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.”
