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.

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.

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.

Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good place.

We had to think differently to do what must be done.

Still, he couldn’t reconcile with the way he felt every time their eyes met, a feeling he had never forgotten that resonated with his very being.

You are a manipulator.I like to think of myself more as an outcome engineer.

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

I drive myself to and from work. I love the privacy.

I always want to win because I never want to sit out on the sidelines outside.

First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

Scars on the back are a swordsman’s shame.