The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
→Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.
→Three of my children are medical doctors, they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they don't know much more about soul than he did.
→Surround yourself with good people. Whether they're the best or not, people are capable of learning if they've got good hearts and they're good souls.
→I love our shared island, our shared Ireland and its core decency. I love it for its imagination and its celebration of the endless possibilities for our people.
→We do recognise the need to move towards the publication of information showing the progress made by pupils from one stage of their education to another.
→If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.
→The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.
→I don't feel I was ever a 'famous' child actor. I was just a working actor who happened to be a kid. I was never really in a hit show until I was a teenager with West Wing playing First Daughter Zoey Bartlet. In a way, that was my saving grace - not being a star on a hit show. It kept me working and kept me grounded.
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