Death is death no matter how it is inflicted

During peace time a scientist belongs to the World, but during war time he belongs to his country.

Fear is just a misunderstanding of your immortality.

No real excellence, personal or social, artistic, philosophical, scientific, or moral, can arise without solitude.

I like a man who can respect a woman. When he's real attentive, I think that is very manly. To respect a woman is divine.

I wonder how many tears the ocean has swallowed, how much of the ocean is actually made of tears.

The song and the land are one.

Our pain can be our greatest teacher. It leads us to places we'd never go on our own.

To increase aid to the Pakistan government when religious freedom is not upheld is tantamount to an anti-Christian foreign policy.

Practice the art of patience for nature never acts in haste.

Craftsmanship names an enduring, basic human impulse, the desire to do a job well for its own sake.

Ireland is such a young society. The British were the ruling class up until they left about a hundred years ago, and we've been trying to work out what our class hierarchy is ever since.