"The stories of past courage... can offer..." - Quote by John F Kennedy

“I think the success of any school can be measured by the contribution the alumni make to our national life.”

“There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts. The age of Pericles was also the age of Phidias. The age of Lorenzo de Medici was also the age of Leonardo da Vinci. The age of Elizabeth was also the age of Shakespeare. And the New Frontier for which I campaign in public life, can also be a New Frontier for American art.”

“Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.”

“Stand up and be strong! No fear. No superstition. Face the truth as it is!”

“Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.”

“Great people do things before they’re ready. They do things before they know they can do it.”

“That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.”

“John Synge, I and Augusta Gregory, thought All that we did, all that we said or sang Must come from contact with the soil, from that Contact everything Antaeus-like grew strong.”

“Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.”