A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

In a society run by terror, no statements whatsoever can be taken seriously. They are all forced, and it is the duty of every honest man to ignore them.

Suffering is not a prerequisite for happiness.

He that won't be counseled can't be helped.

Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea.

There is no topicmore soporific and generally boring than the topic of Ireland as Ireland, as a nation.

Indifferentism about doctrine makes no heroes of the faith.

If you put everything, your heart and soul into a campaign, it might take you a while to come around to the realization that, you know, another person has won.

In a way, there's nothing wrong with playing the piano, but it's not a huge trauma if you don't.