No man has a right to fix the boundary of the march of a nation; no man has a right to say to his country - thus far shalt thou go and no further.

Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England - Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation.

Do what is beyond your strength even should you fail sometimes.

No man has the right to say to his country

Get the advice of everybody whose advice is worth having - they are very few - and then do what you think best yourself.

You must show him, by leaving him severely alone.

Begin to acquire knowledge.

Some days I wonder how I'll get through a whole lifetime of thinking. A life that's just words, words, words, shuffling around in my head. Was I born that way?

Its where my demons hide.

The State must act as the guardian of a millennial future in the face of which the wishes and the selfishness of the individual must appear as nothing and submit.

No one writes dialect better than Flannery O'Connor. No one should even try.

It is God’s passionate pursuit of us that calls us to prayer.

I never show anything to anybody until I've finished it

Where there is love, distance doesn't matter.

I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didn't want to be a child.

If a supernatural power tries to make you a saint or an emperor, refuse it, because the greatest beauty of life hides in having no position whatsoever! Positionless is the best position!