When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
I use an optimistic, positive approach to deal with my symptoms and it came the hard way, before I learned to laugh with myself a little.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.