Death row is a nightmare to serial killers and ax murderers. For an innocent man, it's a life of mental torture that the human spirit is not equipped to survive.
while one can lose oneself in a book one can never be thoroughly unhappy.
I think imagination is one of the greatest blessings of life.
[On refusing to allow photos to be published of herself and her children:] A lady's name should appear in print only three times, at her birth, marriage, and death.
One cannot bring up boys to be eagles and then expect them to be sparrows.
I thought I was God's gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best.
Politics is still crucially important. Our choices are vital, and we've got to make them, and not just say, 'Oh, they're all the same. ' They are all the same in certain ways, alas - a political animal is such an animal. But lurking somewhere behind their rhetoric and their spittle are important choices that we should make.
And the rose like a nymph to the bath addrest, Which unveiled the depth of her glowing breast, Till, fold after fold, to the fainting air, The soul of her beauty and love lay bare.
Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.