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.

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.

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.

How would this world be if there was not God? The answer is simple: it would become itself God.

Acting was important, but it was not as important as getting an education, and I credit my parents with a lot of that.

I sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.

Just as the ocean is waving so each one of us is a waving of the whole cosmos, the entire works, all there is.

If I could be a third of the woman that my mom is and have a third of the strength that she has, then I will have done good by this life.

But I always wound up being the damn John, when I wanted to be the Paul.

Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.

That always seemed to be the most critical test that a child was confronted with - loss of parents, loss of direction, loss of love. Can you live without a mother and a father?

Our education apparatus can't be one that produces robots. That can happen in laboratory. There has to be overall personality development.

Lethargy is the forerunner of death to the public liberty.