I've always enjoyed a woman's company more than men's. They're usually better looking.

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.

The Holy Bible is Divine oracles.

Livin' ain't livin' if your livin' ain't givin'.

I always thought a shipwreck was a well-organized affair, but I've learned the devil a lot in the last five minutes.

Never stop developing and perfecting your abilities, even if you have already achievedsignificant, visible results.

I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached, which gives me a freedom I never had before.

To be early is to be on time, to be on time is to be late, to be late is to be forgotten.

This is an old family secret, and I just found this out recently, and it almost broke my heart. My mother said to me, 'I had never told you this, but God, you were an ugly baby'.

The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas.

Chile isn't the biggest, richest or most powerful country in the world, but we should dedicate ourselves to transforming it into the best country in the world. We don't have a single minute to lose.