I have always believed that hair is a very sure index of character.

... 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.

Irish people have a trick of over-statement, at which one ceases to wince as one grows older.

Drawbacks are good when you are on holiday. If the holiday were too good you might not want to go home again.

The kind need kindness most of all.

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

the way with Ireland is that no sooner do you get away from her than the golden mists begin to close about her, and she lies, an Island of the Blest, something enchanted in our dreams. When you come back you may think you are disillusioned, but you know well that the fairy mists will begin to gather about her once more.