Being Irish he had an abiding sense of tragedy which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

There's no abiding success without commitment.

Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads how to follow how to connect find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists.

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion whatever else it has done has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.

No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern.

The state's interest in marriage is stability. Generally speaking polygamy does not work for stability. Inherent in the whole polygamous movement is a deep and abiding misogyny and denigration of women. So polygamy is objectionable on lots of grounds.

Like all other law-abiding Americans I fully support legal immigration.

The great and abiding lesson of American history particularly the cold war is that the engine of capitalism the individual is mightier than any collective.

As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.

I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth and the keystone of our religion and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts than by any other book.