My only counsel to Ireland is that in order to become deeply Irish, she must become European.

If I live, I mean to spend the rest of my life working for perpetual peace. I have seen war and faced artillery and know what an outrage it is against simple men.

Ireland is a small but insuppressible island half an hour nearer the sunset than Great Britain.

Perspective is as simple as answering this question: If I had 5 months to live would I experience this problem differently?

And the uniqueness of every momentseeks the path from pain to a pearl.

Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized by a madness which forces them to commit the very acts which makes it certain that what they dread shall happen.

American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.

Every truth must be accompanied by some corresponding act.

If one person in America had starved over the last 20 years, you, reader, would know his name. The media would see to that. It would be the most thoroughly documented death since John Kennedy's.

Drawing is deception.

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

In new situations, all the trickiest rules are the ones nobody bothers to explain to you. (And the ones you can't Google.)

In books I converse with men, in the Bible I converse with God.