Let my country die for me.

An Irishman needs three things: silence, cunning, and exile.

To learn one must be humble. But life is a great teacher.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. The longest way round is the shortest way home.

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

Thought is the thought of thought.

People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.

I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.

Children must be educated by love, not punishment.

Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.

They lived and laughed and loved and left.

Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.

Love loves to love love.

Ask no questions and you'll hear no lies.

People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.

Fall if you will, but rise you must.

Absence, the highest form of presence.

Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.