"The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being."

"My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle."

"Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness."

"We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless."

"You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon Ireland's history in their lineaments trace think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends."

"My history teacher was utterly terrifying, but her lessons were very inspiring. She got me interested in people and stories, which then led me to acting."

"There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem."

"If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated."