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.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
I didn't even breathe.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
Post je objavljen 20.08.2010. u 08:47 sati.