As a young man, I went to Paris and soaked up many hours of film knowledge from Robert Hakim in my efforts to become a producer.
It takes madness to find out madness.
There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better words, too.
It is better to be tied to any thorny bush than to be with a cross man.
We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country of the Young along with it.
It's best make changes little by little, the same as you'd put clothes upon a growing child.
It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul.
Negative thinking hinders others from making a positive response.
Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them.
I believe he died this way on purpose. I believe he wanted no chilling moments, no one to witness his last breath and be haunted by it, the way he had been haunted by his mother's death-notice telegram or by his father's corpse in the city morgue.
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.