I've always believed in survival.

My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.

A thing well done is worth doing.

There is only one immutable law in life - in a gentleman's toilet, incoming traffic has the right of way.

Sometimes silence resolves a conversation confused by Mad Misconstruction.

Gossip is more popular than literature.

The problem with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, but with absolutely no talent.

I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it.

Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed.

An Irishman will always soften bad news, so that a major coronary is no more than 'a bad turn' and a near hurricane that leaves thousands homeless is 'good drying weather'.

In life there exist two classes: first class and no class.

All Dogs Go To Heaven? Sorry, kids. It's only the dogs who've accepted Christ.

This is what kindness does, Ms.Albert said. Each little thing we do goes out, like a ripple, into the world.

We have lived with violence far too long.

Not Magnus himself, who was more of a cross between a panther and a demented elf.

You will have found Christ when you are concerned with other people’s sufferings and not your own.

The purpose of enlightenment is certainly not the teacher, nor is it you. It doesn't have a purpose. Enlightenment simply exists.

There is nothing more attractive than a man who is not a New Man.

Right believing produces right living

Ignorance can't be pardoned. Only cured.

No one wants to lose their job, or cede the power they've acquired.