“Find your soul and you'll live. Lose your soul and you'll die.”

“The human face does not always reflect the beauty that may repose in the soul.”

“And he had other assets; one of them -- you'll be surprised at this -- was sin...Whatever it was, Patrick said how it weighed on him. He also exploited it -- because it enabled him to meet people on an equal footing. He was able to say, "Look, I'm not above you. I have my faults, too. I've done terrible things." Just because someone had once sinned, he said, didn't mean they were bad through and through. And that was part of his work in life -- to show that people might sin and still go on to live good lives.”

“Stick a lighted candle up your backside to give yourself that inner glow.”

“It's very healing,' he said, 'to tell yourself your own story as though you were reciting a myth.”

“What I told you tonight - it isn't my story alone. It belongs to every Irish person living and dead. And every Irish person living and dead belongs to it. And to all the story of Ireland; blood and bones, legends, guns and dreams, Catholics, Protestants, England, horses and poets and lovers.”

“How can you be lonely? You've got yourself, haven't you? If you ever lose yourself, then you'll really be lonely...”