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.

I don't want to be romantic, but one of the most important things is to have happy buildings... it's like having a family with a lot of children.

I have a really big family, and pretty much all my work is about my brothers and sisters. I'm the youngest of eight - my mom had seven kids in seven years, and then she had me 11 years later - so I was basically raised by all these teenagers.

Everything in my life boils down to my mother. A tradition, which a lot of people do not know of, is that while I'd give my father the money I earned, anything that was special to me - like an award or an album - would be given to my mother.

If you believe you can make a difference, then you will make a difference. Believe in yourself, your family and your community and you will win.