The first play I wrote was called 'Twenty-five.' It was played by our company in Dublin and London, and was adapted and translated into Irish and played in America.

There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better words, too.

It is better to be tied to any thorny bush than to be with a cross man.

We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country of the Young along with it.

The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart.

Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as before.

It's best make changes little by little, the same as you'd put clothes upon a growing child.

She is a girl would not be afraid to walk the whole world with herself.

As to the old history of Ireland, the first man ever died in Ireland was Partholan, and he is buried, and his greyhound along with him, at some place in Kerry.

It takes madness to find out madness.

I said, in talking, that I felt more and more the time wasted that was not spent in Ireland.

The good and wise lead quite lives

Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.

When you touch a man’s heart, he will remember it forever.

Being famous is wicked, but being normal is better.

The Princess and the Pea?" Gabrielle suggested. "Not enough time," Kat said "Where's Waldo?" Gabrielle went on. "No." Hamish recoiled. "I am still not allowed back in Morocco.

You don’t change the world with the ideas in your mind, but with the conviction in your heart.

Vampire fad just won't die. Makes sense, I guess.

Many children work hard to please their parents, but what I truly longed for was good times that were about us, not about me. That is the real hole the Dodgers filled in my life.

Don't wait for, expect, or rely on favors. Count on earning them by hard work and perseverance.

Gratitude lifts our eyes off the things we lack so we might see the blessings we possess.