"I wonder now what Ernest Hemingways dictionary looked like, since he got along so well with dinky words that anybody can spell and truly understand."

“It is better to be good than to be original,”

“The Lord of Rags and Tatters.”

“Such is life, here today, gone tomorrow! Nothing goes with one, except one's merit and demerit; good and evil deeds follow one even after death.”

“The terrorists are traitors to their own faith, trying, in effect, to hijack Islam itself. The enemy of America is not our many Muslim friends; it is not our many Arab friends. Our enemy is a radical network of terrorists, and every government that supports them.”

“You can't save the world if you can't pay the rent.”

“Nothing prevents us from being and remaining the exponents of a united humanity, when we have a country of our own. To fulfill this mission we do not have to remain literally planted among the nations who hate and despise us.”

Source : Theodor Herzl (1962). “The diaries of Theodor Herzl”

“Of course, I will keep myself fit, keep my boots clean and you never know.”

Source : "From Guv'nor to gaffer". Interview with Paolo Bandini, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2006.

“If there is a distinctive Irish experience, it is one of division, exacerbated by the fact that division in a country so small seems perverse. But the scale doesn't matter.”

Source : 1986 We Irish.