No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
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.