When John (Giles) was manager of Ireland, much as he loved me, he still dropped me.

It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.

It is my considered opinion that in the fullness of time history will record the greatness of Michael Collins and it will be recorded at my expense.

If liberty is not entire it is not liberty.

We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.

For Irishmen, there is no football game to match rugby and if all our young men played rugby not only would we beat England and Wales but France and the whole lot of them put together.

Partition is after all only an old fortress of crumbled masonry - held together with the plaster of fiction.

All history is man's efforts to realise ideals.

Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago.

It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.

Unemployment is due to the large import of goods from Britain and other countries. The Government haven't used the powers which they have for the benefit of the country.

If the college you visit has a bookstore filled with t-shirts rather than books, find another college.

As gold and silver are weighed in pure water, so does the soul test its weight in silence, and the words that we let fall have no meaning apart from the silence that wraps them round.

I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.

Deep Throat did serve the public interest by providing the guidance and information to us.

You can't lead your troops if your troops do not trust you.

A continuing conversation with other persons, with cultural products, and with oneself, is a large part of what it means to be a human being, in our time and perhaps in all time.

I think people who are fanatical about anything are funny.

Great leaders, like Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos, also focused on the long term.

The word "wilderness" occurs approximately three hundred times in the Bible, and all its meanings are derogatory.

I sort of feel like that's the most revolutionary thing we can do with our narrative for me as Black people is to show that we are just like you.