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

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.

Drawbacks are good when you are on holiday. If the holiday were too good you might not want to go home again.

You can't take love for granted! You need to be patient. And just as flowers take time to blossom, love will one day blossom in your heart!

I'm not very geeky. I'm quite homespun. I would say I'm more modern rustic than gadget-orientated. I like woollen things and log fires and whiskey

Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all.

It's one thing to make lemonade out of lemons, another to proclaim that lemons are what you'd hope for in the first place.

He was an outsider who lived by his ability to manipulate the inside.

I am leading a war against the British Empire. I'm not worried about what Democratic Party hacks say or do.

To be good Americans, we must be better Jews, and to be better Jews, we must become Zionists.

Be aware that rigidity imprisons.

Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity & disenchantment it is perennial as the grass.

McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the builder of the F-15.