"Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time."

"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books."

"Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose."

"The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain."

"The report of my death was an exaggeration."

"Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we are reaching the stage when we may have to announce ourselves to death. It is as though one needs a special strength to die, and not a final weakness."

"When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence."

"I love Westerns and I remember as a kid climbing up on the couch and make it into a saddle and shoot guns and fall off. I would lay there after my death and my mom would tell me to eat lunch and I'd say, 'I'm still dead, Mom!' I was Method, even then."