"The Irish are a fair people - they never speak well of one another"

"An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere."

"No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned."

"He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind."

"You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company."

"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise."

"Before I go out to take a picture of someone, I just stop at the city desk and say, 'Do you want him gazing out toward the sunset or picking his nose?'"

"They (who) seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers. . . call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order."

"The mind can also be an erogenous zone."

"People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others."

"What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket."

"To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die."