It's not meant to be entertaining. If you want entertainment, go to the pictures. This is serious!

It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.

It is my considered opinion that in the fullness of time history will record the greatness of Michael Collins and it will be recorded at my expense.

If liberty is not entire it is not liberty.

We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.

For Irishmen, there is no football game to match rugby and if all our young men played rugby not only would we beat England and Wales but France and the whole lot of them put together.

Partition is after all only an old fortress of crumbled masonry - held together with the plaster of fiction.

All history is man's efforts to realise ideals.

Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago.

It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.

Unemployment is due to the large import of goods from Britain and other countries. The Government haven't used the powers which they have for the benefit of the country.

Women should never go without earrings. Passing on them is an opportunity missed.

I have seen players sent off for far worse offences than that.

Real dancers are the ones who can hear the music in their soul.

My favorite kinds of comedies are ones that hopefully make you laugh a lot, but ultimately make you care about something in the end, even if it's just a little bit.

Ignorant people, whispering cruel rumors, her mother whispered. Pay them no mind.

I don't do the super-clean-living L.A. thing.

Do not cling to anything, to any idea; because clinging is the bondage, even to the idea of enlightenment.

I don't believe in fate, because I'm not spiritual, but things do seem to work out.

I'm really excited for people to be able to see what else I can do, besides high heels and magic powers.