You must show him, by leaving him severely alone.

Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England - Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation.

No man has a right to fix the boundary of the march of a nation; no man has a right to say to his country - thus far shalt thou go and no further.

Do what is beyond your strength even should you fail sometimes.

No man has the right to say to his country

Get the advice of everybody whose advice is worth having - they are very few - and then do what you think best yourself.

The great political problem in our modern democracy is how to induce our leaders to lead.

That's the thing about rocks--they don't break easily. When I held them, I wanted to be like them-strong and steady, weathered but not broken.

I will take away your means of escape.

People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.

We can all change the people around us by changing ourselves.

All things require skill but an appetite.

If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.

Thinking can really be the enemy of action, and thinking can be the enemy of reality.

There's a film you write, there's a film you shoot, and there's a film that you cut - and they're all different.

Man, I hate waking up with a dead hooker.