Michel Platini is a good player, not a great player

It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.

It is my considered opinion that in the fullness of time history will record the greatness of Michael Collins and it will be recorded at my expense.

If liberty is not entire it is not liberty.

We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.

For Irishmen, there is no football game to match rugby and if all our young men played rugby not only would we beat England and Wales but France and the whole lot of them put together.

Partition is after all only an old fortress of crumbled masonry - held together with the plaster of fiction.

All history is man's efforts to realise ideals.

Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago.

It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.

Unemployment is due to the large import of goods from Britain and other countries. The Government haven't used the powers which they have for the benefit of the country.

If you listen to music every day, you will strengthen your soul.

Sunrise - a time when all truths are still clean and enviable.

There is no index of character as sure as the voice.

Imagine trying to live without air.Now imagine something worse.

For my money, there are no more fascinating, hard-working, vulnerable creatures on earth than writers. Every day, they lay their souls out there for public approval or rejection.

The girl who chooses to be modest, chooses to be respected.

Jesus did not help just the sick who could afford to pay for it.

The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others.

Music is an art form that doesn't need to be explained. It needs to be performed; it needs to be felt; it needs to be listened to; it needs to progress.

If you enter into the spirit of Life, you are really reproducing in yourself the qualities of the Creator of that which allows something to be manifested and created in the first place.