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.
You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
We are what we repeatedly do.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.