Often our bad moments are self-propelled ... And the drama is almost exclusively within our heads and hearts.

It's a strange thing now how people will know they're dying themselves when no one else could suspect anything wrong at all with them.

There is an Irish way of paying compliments as though they were irresistible truths which makes what would otherwise be an impertinence delightful.

The Irish always jest even though they jest with tears.

... Hope is at the bottom of the Pandora's box of Irish troubles, and I believe proudly and firmly in the ultimate destinies of my country.

The kind need kindness most of all.

It is a horrible demoralizing thing to be a lawyer. You look for such low motives in everyone and everything.