Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.

The Destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing you end up as a collection of monkeys throwing nuts at each other out of separate trees.

Those who lived by the sword were forced to die by it.

In war, our elders may give the orders...but it is the young who have to fight.

It is good to put your life in other people's hands.

If people reach perfection they vanish, you know.

When shall I be dead and rid Of all the wrong my father did? How long, how long 'till spade and hearse Put to sleep my mother's curse?

It has to be admitted that starving nations never seem to be quite so starving that they cannot afford to have far more expensive armaments than anybody else.

It is so fatally easy to make young children believe that they are horrible.

It is only people who are lacking, or bad, or inferior, who have to be good at things. You have always been full and perfect, so you had nothing to make up for.

It is the bad people who need to have principles to restrain them.

A #GIRLBOSS knows when to throw punches and when to roll with them.

As we grow older we are apt to forget that the despair of the young is even more gigantic and immediately overwhelming than their hopefulness: we never again face such towering blank walls of misery.

I'm doing a lot of parenting work and acting as a spokesperson. I have a clothing line and a line of toys.

I consider adversity being good sometimes you know.

A man sits as many risks as he runs.

Alas! the culture of an Irishman is an enterprise to be undertaken with a sort of moral bog hoe.

So you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna do something really outrageous, I'm gonna tell the truth.

The Empire of Wisdom is the only empire on which the sun never sets!

I am still young. I have a lot of time. And if someone breaks my records in the future, I won't cry. That's sport.

Do I believe in Witchcraft? I'm the result of it.