Get the advice of everybody whose advice is worth having - they are very few - and then do what you think best yourself.

Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England - Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation.

No man has a right to fix the boundary of the march of a nation; no man has a right to say to his country - thus far shalt thou go and no further.

Do what is beyond your strength even should you fail sometimes.

No man has the right to say to his country

You must show him, by leaving him severely alone.

God knows what is in my heart, In my life still i don't have the people whom i want.

... obsessions are always dangerous.

it is interesting to find that people of faith now seek defensively to say that they are no worse than fascists or Nazis or Stalinists

For every teenager I know, having a phone is a mixed blessing, because your parents can press a button and figure out where you are.

Chaos is perhaps at the bottom of everything.

Do work that matters. Vale la pena

Running from your problems is a race you'll never win.

A theme is always necessary, a plain, simple, unadorned theme to confuse the ignorant.

The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.

I think the most significant moment at a wedding is when you say "I do" and when you do the first dance.