We make mistakes, we have our faults, and God knows some of us have more than our share, but when danger threatens and duty calls, we go smiling to our own funeral.

Intolerance has been the curse of our country.

Comrades - We are living in momentous times!

I have tried to kill sectarianism, whether in Catholics or Protestants.

No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic.

The employers cannot carry on industry nor accumulate profits if they have not got the good will of the workers or their acquiescence in carrying on such industry.

The land of Ireland for the people of Ireland

The souls you have got cast upon the screen of publicity appear like the horrid and writhing creatures enlarged from the insect world, and revealed to us by the cinematograph.

Stop at home. Arm for Ireland. Fight for Ireland and no other land.

We are now on the threshold of a newer movement, with a newer hope and a new inspiration.

I am, of course, aware that the ultimate solution is the ownership and control of the means of life by the whole of the people; but we are not at that stage of development as yet.

When someone is drowning and you try to save them, they're more likely to drown you before you pull them out.

love is like allopathic medicine...it gives happy very soon but it's side effects are so painful...

Death and taxes are inevitable.

Some people think happiness is a luxury, but it's a necessity. You need to make space for it in your life.

I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example.

Our identity as Christians is strengthened as we stand in the lengthening shadows of saints down through the centuries, who have always answered back in antiphonal voice: 'He is risen, indeed!'

Every person that you meet knows something you don't; learn from them.

Men like my father cannot die. They are with me still, real in memory as they were in flesh, loving and beloved forever. How green was my valley then.

Both Mum and Dad were converts to Catholicism, and normally if you convert to Catholicism you have thought about it more than someone who just grew up with it, taking it for granted.

You can't really imagine every moment of a movie in the same way that you wouldn't expect a novelist to envision every sentence of his 800-page novel.