Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
All movements go too far.
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.