This would be a grand land if only every Irishman would kill a negro, and be hanged for it.

History is past politics, and politics is present history.

You don't have to be in hurry in life. Everything happens in sacred-time.

If I were hanged on the highest hill Mother o' mine O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine O mother o' mine!

Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew.

I played in the high school band. I was the one baritone saxophone out of 80 other people. No one could tell whether I was hittin the right notes or the wrong notes.

Sometimes, I wonder what I'm doing here.

Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.

Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.

We need to ensure the poorest in the planet - who will be hardest hit by the financial crisis - are not forgotten.

Hey! Don't laugh at me for that cupcake thing. I enjoy cupcakes, therefore EVERYONE should enjoy cupcakes.

Male groupies gettin' shaky when I come from the rear.