I said, in talking, that I felt more and more the time wasted that was not spent in Ireland.

There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better words, too.

It is better to be tied to any thorny bush than to be with a cross man.

We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country of the Young along with it.

The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart.

Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as before.

It's best make changes little by little, the same as you'd put clothes upon a growing child.

She is a girl would not be afraid to walk the whole world with herself.

As to the old history of Ireland, the first man ever died in Ireland was Partholan, and he is buried, and his greyhound along with him, at some place in Kerry.

It takes madness to find out madness.

Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good place.

I told my three sons stories about germs more than fifty years ago as fanciful bedtime tales.

I was genuinely starstruck when I met Kermit the Frog. Like many stars here tonight, he's a lot shorter in real life.

The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics.

If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.

The present is the past biting into the future.

A seven year old to a neighbor after the boy's house burned down, "Oh, that was not our home. That was our house. We still have our home. We just don't have a place to put it right now."

The painting is like a thread that runs through all the reasons for all the other things that make one's life.

A live audience with live reactions feeds a different sort of acting that will then inform your film work, and vice versa.

By all measures men are the more violent gender.