Certainly the best times were when I was alone with mathematics, free of ambition and pretense, and indifferent to the world.

If you live as if you know nothing you offer yourself the opportunity to learn everything.

Some dreams, some poems, some musical phrases, some pictures, wake feelings such as one never had before, new in colour and form—spiritual sensations, as it were, hitherto unproved

Irish and English are so widely separated in their mode of expression that nothing like a literal rendering from one language to the other is possible.

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.

Accurst be he that first invented war.

Success and average don't have nothing to do with each other.

Zeal is ever the buckler and shield of a true soldier.

The true Gospel of Jesus Christ is a revelation of how God has taken sinful man and made him a new creature and imparted to him a perfect righteousness.

Do you not realise that dance is the pure act of metamorphosis?

Now and again there will be the occasional joke about owing someone two dollars from the days in '63 when I was a broke blues singer with a washboard, but it's good. I'm happy.