It is nothing, to give one’s life for Ireland. I’m not the first and maybe I won’t be the last. What’s my life compared with the cause?

Tricky the paths a long love might follow, like the spiral down twists of a raindrop on a windowpane.

Before forty, you think that exhaustion is something like a long-lasting hangover. But at forty you learn all about it. Even your passions exhaust you.

One world leader warned another "the error of relying on the capability you have rather than developing the capability you need.

More than anything else, your people want you to listen to them.

I have no recipe for how to combine things. But you must be sincere. And if you are, strangely, it will succeed.

Good people don't go to heaven. Forgiven people go to heaven.

I saw that the war could not be prevented. The time had passed.

I do not believe in collective guilt.

The filmmaker is really important to me: it could be their first film; it's not just about their reputation, but I have to really believe in them.

Real men change diapers!

There are so many fans and so many people who care deeply about this game, and it is because of these fans that we are who we are as cricketers.

we have to suffer mosquitoes the size of blackbirds.