You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they were at twenty but not one of them will tell you that they are ten times as happy

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

You have no right to say that I am not sincere. I have found a happiness in art that real life has never given me. I am intensely in earnest about art. There is is a magic and mystery in art that you know nothing of.

The philosopher is Nature's pilot.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

I must remind you that our credulity is not to be measured by the truth of the things we believe. When men believed that the earthwas flat, they were not credulous: they were using their common sense, and, if asked to prove that the earth was flat, would have said simply, "Look at it." Those who refuse to believe that it is round are exercising a wholesome skepticism.

I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.