I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.

New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a wild goat.

The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.

It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.

They took away our land, our language, and our religion; but they could never harness our tongues.

The terrorist is the one with the small bomb.

I only take a drink on two occasions - when I'm thirsty and when I'm not.

I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.

The only thing I envy in young people is their livers.

The English and Americans dislike only some Irish--the same Irish that the Irish themselves detest, Irish writers--the ones that think.

Goals are the source of misery. An unattained goal causes pain, but actually achieving it brings only a brief satisfaction.

Money is worth nothing if it can't buy you the opportunity to love more.

When people sugarcoat Christianity, arrange it all nicely, they have, in effect, taken away the Cross.

Tact is not a small thing; in the battle of life it is more powerful than a bludgeon.

What use legs if not to take you down the road? What use eyes if not to see what lay beyond the horizon? What use hands if not to open doors?

Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.

The tulip's petals shine in dew, All beautiful, but none alike.

I may be a dumb blonde, but I'm not that blonde.

In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well.

Most church members live so far below the standard, you would have to backslide to be in fellowship with them.