The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.

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.

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

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.

Is the healing process the writing or the reading of that writing?What are we all healing from? Ourselves?What are we all healing towards? Ourselves?

In times of adversity, you will know those who truly love you.

What if I don't believe in magic, Finn?That's stupid, how can you not believe in magic, Coop? It's everywhere.

Send these images of me through the internet out into the universe, where I will continue my out-of-body existence.

Senator majority leader, Mitch McConnell, slammed [Donald] Trump's comments about burning the American flag which is protected under the first amendment should lead to jail time.

Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries Is not the goal but the exercise.

Virtues lose themselves in self-interest, as rivers in the sea.

The Way lies at hand yet it is sought afar off; the thing lies in the easy yet it is sought in the difficult.

Isn't all religions curious? If they weren't you wouldn't get anyone to believe them.

People are still thinking of solving problems by violence and war, and that has to stop.