Cynicism ... is the trade-mark of failure.

Enthusiasm is ever a gracious, pardonable thing, because in its essentials are youth and zeal and all high, white-hot qualities whose roots strike not in the base earth.

We Irish are born dreamers; sometimes we never wake up at all, and then we're counted failures.

An eight-mile drive over rain-washed Irish roads in the quick-falling dusk of autumn is an experience trying to the patience, even to the temper, of the average Saxon.

Most prisons have wide gates!

Nobody is such an individualist as the man who advocates equality.

It is sacrilege to attempt analysis of birth or love or death. Death and birth, the mysteries! Love, the revelation!