I hope that at the end of the seven years, people will say that I have been of some inspirational value to them at home in terms of inclusiveness and abroad, I look forward to representing Ireland.

A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve his purity; he ought not to despise humility, but should love forbearance and modesty. All these are an ornament to youthful years.

Saint Ambrose

If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact that we not only have feelings but insist upon having them at whatever cost to ourselves. The quality common to all the great operatic roles, e.g., Don Giovanni, Norma, Lucia, Tristan, Isolde, Br?nnhilde, is that each of them is a passionate and willful state of being. In real life they would all be bores, even Don Giovanni.

W. H. Auden

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

Upton Sinclair

When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.

E.M. Forster

He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him if stronger, spare thyself.

William Shakespeare

Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Richard Bach

Ideas are fatal to caste.

E. M. Forster

The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.

Karl Marx

When women earn the money for the family, everyone in the family benefits. We also know that when women have an income, everyone wins because women dedicate 90% of the income to health, education, to food security, to the children, to the family, or to the community, so when women have an income, everybody wins.

Michelle Bachelet

In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.

Dick Gregory

Anyone can be great with money. With money, greatness is not a talent but an obligation. The trick is to be great without money.

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She was everything that was untouchable.

Sonya Hartnett