Something my mum taught me years and years and years ago, is life's just too short to carry around a great bucket-load of anger and resentment and bitterness and hatreds and all that sort of stuff. Use this quote
My relationship with "Pollyanna" is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood. Use this quote
If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it. Use this quote
There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened. Use this quote
Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war. Use this quote
Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government. Use this quote
Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace. Use this quote
There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before. Use this quote
You think that religion is a thing that is there to help you and to see you through life, and then you wake up one morning and find the entire Irish situation, the civil war that's based on religion. Use this quote
I don't regret anything I ever do or say. I don't like to live my life being censored. I like to say what I feel, and I think people respect that because you're honest. Use this quote
I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people. Use this quote
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade! Use this quote
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together. Use this quote
I want to be able to look back and say, 'I've done everything I can, and I was successful.' I don't want to look back and say I should have done this or that. I'd like to change things for the younger generation of swimmers coming along. Use this quote
Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. Use this quote
If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it. Use this quote
Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour. Use this quote
My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry. Use this quote
Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable. Use this quote
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. Use this quote
