Irish people have a trick of over-statement, at which one ceases to wince as one grows older.

O, the red rose may be fair, And the lily statelier; But my shamrock, one in three Takes the very heart of me!

The life in which nothing happens goes the fastest, because it has no landmarks.

The kind need kindness most of all.

The trouble with the Irish question always has been that it was an English question.

There is an Irish way of paying compliments as though they were irresistible truths which makes what would otherwise be an impertinence delightful.

Often our bad moments are self-propelled ... And the drama is almost exclusively within our heads and hearts.

I have often heard it said that the Irish are too ready to forgive. It is a noble failing.

I have always believed that hair is a very sure index of character.

It's a strange thing now how people will know they're dying themselves when no one else could suspect anything wrong at all with them.

It is a horrible demoralizing thing to be a lawyer. You look for such low motives in everyone and everything.

Style like the human body is specially beautiful when the veins are not prominent and the bones cannot be counted.

I think you just have to work hard for about 10 years before you know what you’re doing

Alaska has great potential for new oil and gas development.

Without the law, you can't have society. But without the arts, you can't have civilisation

I have a necklace with a golden key, given to me by my sisters, which I always wear.

We live in the country, and I have a huge library there. When we go to London for the winter I never know which books to take. I never know what I am going to need. Thats the only disadvantage.

I never even watched football growing up. I just play the game.

I have faith that a script is going to hit me like a ton of bricks, and when that happens, it's undeniable that I should choose the role.

Solve global warming, eliminate the nuclear threat, and we will still have to confront the vastness of our species and the way it diminishes, without thinking, all the other species around it.

O friendship, I too will press flowers between the pages of Shakespeare's sonnets!