Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

My dear boy, the people who only love once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect—simply a confession of failures.

We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.

Today's failure can teach us to prepare for the future.

Dreaming of the life we want has always been easier than working for it.

A strong heart can overcome sickness but those who lost hope can't.