Most prisons have wide gates!

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.

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.

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!

No weapons are more potent than brevity and simplicity.

To give! To give without hope of recompense, without question, without fear! That was the message of life.

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