We Irish will never achieve anything; but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

What we call fundamental truths are simply the ones we discover after all the others.

He dreamed of funeral love, but dreams crumble and the tomb abides

The more you give, the more you will have to give.

We're half the people we should be half the Congress.

Every relationship has its drama and baggage.

Revolutions are not exportable: revolutions are created by oppressive conditions which Latin American countries exercise against their peoples.

I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence.

On Furnishing One's Home - Pick your furniture like you pick a wife; it should make you feel comfortable and look nice, but not so nice that if someone walks past it they want to steal it.

Even a correct decision is wrong when it was taken too late.

Because there was nothing more terrifying to me, more excruciating, than the thought of turning away from him. it was an impossibility.