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.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn't really represent any risk to me.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.