It is better to be tied to any thorny bush than to be with a cross man.

There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better words, too.

We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country of the Young along with it.

The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart.

Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as before.

It's best make changes little by little, the same as you'd put clothes upon a growing child.

She is a girl would not be afraid to walk the whole world with herself.

As to the old history of Ireland, the first man ever died in Ireland was Partholan, and he is buried, and his greyhound along with him, at some place in Kerry.

It takes madness to find out madness.

I said, in talking, that I felt more and more the time wasted that was not spent in Ireland.

Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good place.

The best way to teach a child is live an exemplary life.

You may be ableto fly to heaven with my love.But for real, my love is onlya cheap wine.Seriously, Only God’s love is the precious wine.And She evengives it to everyone.For free!

You get a good review, and it’s like crack. You need another hit. And another. And another. I know authors are like Tinkerbell and generally need applause to survive, but it’s a slippery slope.

Each man has a breaking point, no matter how strong his spirit. Somewhere, deep inside him, there is a flaw that only the fickle cruelty of fate can find.

I studied acting in school and then of course couldn't get an acting job.

Forgiveness is the path to healing.

Goals may give focus, but dreams give power.

A leader has to show the face his team needs to see.

Like all photographers, I depend on serendipity I pray for what might be referred to as the angel of chance.