Most things between a woman and a man cannot be understood, it’s why people invented love poems, a way of filling in the silence.

People who mind read usually feel they are right, but this does not guarantee they are. Why guess when you can ask?

Truly the angels are come among us every day. Our difficulty is so often that in our vanity and worldliness we so utterly fail to recognise them for what they are.

It was mankind and not the Almighty that had ordered the universe; only a man could look at an accident and call it a creation with Himself at the centre.

If you go through the world looking for excellence, you will find excellence. If you go through the world looking for problems you will find problems. Or as the Arabic saying puts it, “What a piece of bread looks like depends on whether you are hungry or not”.

Beliefs: Those things we hold to be true despite evidence to the contrary.

Dublin was turning into Disneyland with super-pubs, a Purgatory open till five in the morning.

I feel these days like a very large flamingo. No matter what way I turn, there is always a very large bill.

There is nothing worse than the ambitions of a talentless person.

If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got. If what you are doing is not working, do something else.