Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
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.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.