It's best make changes little by little, the same as you'd put clothes upon a growing child.

There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better words, too.

When I was a child and came with my elders to Galway for their salmon fishing in the river that rushes past the gaol, I used to look with awe at the window where men were hung, and the dark, closed gate.

From the sons of Ith, the first of the Gael to get his death in Ireland, there came in the after time Fathadh Canaan, that got the sway over the whole world from the rising to the setting sun, and that took hostages of the streams and the birds and the languages.

Parents should continue to become more involved with their communities, and more involved in their children's education.

Being a teacher was great, but it wasn't what I wanted to do, so it was ultimately crushing.

In places where money comes out of the ground, luck and a willingness to take risks are the main denominators that determine one's future, not talent or education or hard work. Money that is so easily acquired somehow comes to seem well deserved, because those who have it must be either uniquely perspicacious or divinely favored.

I am grateful to my mother for insisting that I complete my education.