There is an Irish way of paying compliments as though they were irresistible truths which makes what would otherwise be an impertinence delightful.

O, the red rose may be fair, And the lily statelier; But my shamrock, one in three Takes the very heart of me!

The life in which nothing happens goes the fastest, because it has no landmarks.

The kind need kindness most of all.

The trouble with the Irish question always has been that it was an English question.

Often our bad moments are self-propelled ... And the drama is almost exclusively within our heads and hearts.

I have often heard it said that the Irish are too ready to forgive. It is a noble failing.

I have always believed that hair is a very sure index of character.

It's a strange thing now how people will know they're dying themselves when no one else could suspect anything wrong at all with them.

It is a horrible demoralizing thing to be a lawyer. You look for such low motives in everyone and everything.

Drawbacks are good when you are on holiday. If the holiday were too good you might not want to go home again.

It is only those that live intentionally that can accomplish and come to the significance meant for them.

Management: An art of handling conflicting Egos to meet a common objective, be it political, organisational or societal in nature.

I wondered why humans were even given the gift of speech at all. We no longer needed it

We’ve spent centuries moving them away from that word virtue and especially The Virtues and that’s precisely how we did it —by making it lower case.

We live between two dense clouds; the forgetting of what was and the uncertainty of what will be.

Water covers two-thirds of the Earth. I cover the rest.

Babies are like poems. They're beautiful to their creator, but to other people, they're silly and they're irritating.

Campuses that were once havens of free speech are now patrolled and regulated by thought police. Intellectual dishonesty has become a job requirement for university administrators.

I hope that doing truthful portrayals of people in a variety of circumstances gives people a kind of subterranean link to those characters.

When I travel on an airplane, I like to be served TWA milk and TWA coffee. But I love to be served TWA tea.