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.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.