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

We have all of us the two natures - the brother and the sister! Not one of us is quite woman - not one of us is all man!

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

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

The most splendid moment of an adventure is not always the moment of fulfilment, not even the moment of conception, but the moment of first accomplishment, when the adventurer deliberately sets his face toward the new road, knowing that his boats are burned.

Light love is desire of pleasure; great love is fear of being alone.

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