Frank O'Connor

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the assessment that something is more important than fear"

"A writer must never lose the common touch"

"The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have"

"Every human being is a problem in search of a solution"

"Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious"

"The only real failure is the failure to try"

"In every human being there is some seed of goodness"

"Patience is the virtue of the strong"

"A man's life is his character"

"The greatest gift is the gift of yourself"

"Knowledge is the beginning of virtue"

"Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most dislike"

"Truth is like a surgery. It hurts but it cures"

"The only freedom we really want is the freedom to be ourselves"

"Hope is the thing that is left to us in a bad time"

"Beauty is truth made visible"

"Every person has a genius inside them waiting to wake up"

"The greatest discovery of our time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude"

"Work is the only dignity"

"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend"

"A good friend is like a four-leaf clover, hard to find, lucky to have"

"Family is the basic unit of society"

"Music is the universal language of mankind"

"Faith is believing what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe"

"A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others see"

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do"

"Adventure is worthwhile in itself"

"Imagination is more important than knowledge"

"Technology is best when it brings people together"

"History is a set of lies agreed upon"