The Prince of the power of the air seems to bend all the force of his attack against the spirit of prayer.

There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom.

I don't care for music, I don't care for scenery, I don't care for women...I like bridge.

If I am a great man, then all great men are frauds.

Asquith, when drunk, can make a better speech than any of us when sober.

If I am a great man then a good many of the great men of history are frauds.

There is no such thing as inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom.

How do you know which path you should take? Take one and it will tell you if you've chosen wisely. If not, choose a different path. That's the gift life offers freely.

Every Irish person of my generation and earlier, we were raised Catholic and we'd have to learn it in school, we'd to learn the catechism by rote.

It is our duty never to speak ill of others, you know; least of all when we know that to do so will be the cause of much pain and trouble.

Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned how to do that from my dad.

Faith is the yes of the heart.

I never indulge in rhyme or stanza Unless I'm in bed with the influenza.

A scent that disturbs me and delights me. It smells like ripe pears, vetiver, a bit of violet and something else- something spicy almost biting and exotic.

The memory came faint and cold of the story I might have told, a story in the likeness of my life, I mean without the courage to end or the strength to go on.

O, what damned minutes tells he o'er Who dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet fondly loves!