We are ready to die and shall die cheerfully and proudly, you must not grieve for all of this.

You cannot conquer Ireland; you cannot extinguish the Irish passion for freedom. If our deed has not been sufficient to win freedom, then our children will win it by a better deed.

We seem to have lost. We have not lost. To refuse to fight would have been to lose; to fight is to win. We have kept faith with the past, and handed on a tradition to the future.

Life springs from death; and from the graves of patriot men and women spring living nations.

Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood... there are many things more horrible than bloodshed, and slavery is one of them!

A country without a language is a country without a soul.

As long as Ireland is unfree the only honourable attitude for Irish men, women to have is an attitude of rebellion.

There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Ireland unfree shall never be at peace

You are strong enough to sing as you wish, not as your pain has forced to. You aren't your hurt. You're other than that. You are not the broken things you've been.

Now I no longer believe that people's secrets are defined and communicable, or their feelings full-blown and easy to recognize.

Unless everyone grasps the importance of having only two children per couple, wars won't be over just oil anymore, they will be over water and food.

You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.

You are... you're like a beating heart. A glowing lamp. I've never met anyone like you before.

You can be sexy, but you can't be 50

China's got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain't right.

During a very busy life I have often been asked, "How did you manage to do it all?" The answer is very simple. It is because I did everything promptly.

I used to have a phrase: Liberalism is spreading misery equally. And now the ruling class throughout Washington seems to have adopted this.

The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.