It is a precarious undertaking to say anything reliable about aims and intentions.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

God is clever but not dishonest.

Try not to become a man of success but rather a man of value.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

If he had gone to the old school, he was by no means old-school.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

Romeo Must Die came at the right time. It was the right vehicle for me.

We will not capitulate - no, never! We may be destroyed, but if we are, we shall drag a world with us - a world in flames.

Making bombs will only destroy us. It doesn't matter whether we use them or not. They will destroy us either way.

I think that if people get my music, then they get what my message is.

The main thing a childhood in the Church did for me, I think, was set up the universe as a moral system. Once you've seen it that way, it always seems that way.

There are continents and seas in the moral world, to which every man is an isthmus or inlet, yet unexplored by him.

What are you afraid of? You are an immortal being. You are neither a man nor a woman, as you may think, but a soul - joyous, eternal.

We Irish will never achieve anything; but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks