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

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 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.

The English and Americans dislike only some Irish--the same Irish that the Irish themselves detest, Irish writers--the ones that think.

There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.

I moved out of my house at 17 and half, I rented an apartment... I pulled all the things off. It was pretty amazing and I lived a pretty good life, I had a car and I was making good money.

The bachelors admired freedom is often a yoke, for the freer a man is to himself the greater slave he often is to the whims of others.

I don't think the emergence of a superhuman intelligence would be at all catastrophic but much more likely to be beneficial - just as long as we don't start trying to interfere with it!

Suffering for Jesus is temporary. Pleasure in Jesus is eternal.

A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things.

Every cent we earn from Crocodile Hunter goes straight back into conservation. Every single cent.

It would be really nice to have a venue stop in Japan someday. Japan would be perfect for it.

There is at least one thing worse than fighting with allies - And that is to fight without them