It's best make changes little by little, the same as you'd put clothes upon a growing child.

There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better words, too.

When I was a child and came with my elders to Galway for their salmon fishing in the river that rushes past the gaol, I used to look with awe at the window where men were hung, and the dark, closed gate.

From the sons of Ith, the first of the Gael to get his death in Ireland, there came in the after time Fathadh Canaan, that got the sway over the whole world from the rising to the setting sun, and that took hostages of the streams and the birds and the languages.

I think it is rather heroic to go into a war zone where everyone is trying to kill you, and you have no way of shooting back.

I hate when bands make beige, middle-of-the-road music. I guess you can say 'Lonerism' is the war on beige music.

When I received the news of the Nobel Peace Award, I could not believe it. I told my father, 'I think they have the wrong name, Dad. Please, can you talk to this man on the phone? I'm busy cooking!'

I've made peace with insecurity... because there is no security of any kind.