A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day.

New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a wild goat.

The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.

It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.

I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.

They took away our land, our language, and our religion; but they could never harness our tongues.

The terrorist is the one with the small bomb.

I only take a drink on two occasions - when I'm thirsty and when I'm not.

I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.

The only thing I envy in young people is their livers.

And just when I though things were starting to get better, everything had gone wrong again.

The solution to any problem is a positive attitude.

The body suffers, but the spirit is renewed.

Map out your future - but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.

If we cannot have moral feelings against homosexuality, can we have it against murder? Can we have it against other things?

The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.

When you really are country, and you don't just wear it like a piece of clothing or something, you really can't get away from it. It just is who you are

He who does not understand the supreme certainty of mathematics is wallowing in confusion.

God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses, we are in a very elementary condition of grace.

A winner never stops trying.