Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.

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.

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.

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.

No civilization can thrive or survive if it refuses to adapt or change.

The greatest enemy of progress is the illusion of knowledge.

All I'm saying is that minerals are just a rudimentary form of consciousness whereas the other people are saying that consciousness is a complicated form of minerals.

How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.

The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out.

As your love grows, you will find that your attachment to this world will begin to fall away.

Drinking spirits cannot cause spiritual damage.

I've learned it's important not to limit yourself. You can do whatever you really love to do, no matter what it is.

The first thing we do when we're born is we breathe in, and we cry. And the last thing we do when we die is we breathe out, and other people cry.

Prayer has the power to change mountains into highways.