I Love children, especially when they cry for then someone takes them away.

I am sometimes bored by people, but never by life.

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.

Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered.

A typical Irish dinner would be: cream flavored with lobster, cream with bits of veal in it, green peas and cream, cream cheese, cream flavored with strawberries.

If one can't be happy, one must be amused.

The English lord marries for love, and is rather inclined to love where money is; he rarely marries in order to improve his coat of arms.

Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?

People in towns are always preoccupied. 'Have I missed the bus? Have I forgotten the potatoes? Can I get across the road?

How could a man know the truth of his own soul?

Heaven ne'er helps the man who will not help himself.

To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.

Self confidence plays an important part in every aspect of man's life.

I don't know that I'm the best fighter in the world, but I know I can beat anybody in the world. And that's all I need to know.

No man can go to Heaven, but everyman can build one!

When I get sick, I go to my doctor like everyone else. A doctor has powerful tools that may help me. Or those tools may hurt me, make me worse. I have to decide. It's my life. It's my responsibility.

My first serious project was photographing badgers - very, very difficult as they are shy and nocturnal.