Most people die in improvised circumstances of harassment and confusion, whether in hospital or out of it.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.

Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.

Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

A justice-thirsty country needs nothing but justice, neither bread nor anything else, only justice!

Effective leaders are good spotters. They are on the lookout forpotential leaders. They have the ability to look beyond other’s deficiencies tosee their possibilities.

No man who has not sat in the assemblies of men can know the light odd and uncertain ways in which decisions are often arrived at.

You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.

So instead of talking about theoretical ways of ending the war and violence, I say that we have to get rid of the individual asholes in each office and situation.

If we win, I don't care if I get 20 boards or five boards.

When a new building block is discovered, the result is usually a range of innovations.

The republic stands for truth and honour. For all that is noblest in our race. By truth and honour, principle and sacrifice alone will Ireland be free.

Performing is always my biggest rush. The energy is boundless from a great crowd.

Normally I wouldn't spoil anything because I love surprises - I don't even shake my presents at Christmas.