"Dost thou not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?"

"You shouldn't say it is not good. You should say, you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe."

"Religiously strict people, who judge themselves without mercy, are also those who have most often spoken ill of mankind in general."

"A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship."

"Any new venture goes through the following stages: enthusiasm, complication, disillusionment, search for the guilty, punishment of the innocent, and decoration of those who did nothing."

"Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up."

"Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting."

"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the ordinary."

"Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations."

"Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too."

"An Irishman is the only man in the world who will step over the bodies of a dozen naked women to get to a bottle of stout."

"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."