The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
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.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.