I am very proud of this work because it is more about the meaning of the Easter Rising and its relationship to what this whole century has been about, people liberating themselves, freeing themselves.

And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.

Rainn Wilson

It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.

Max Beerbohm

Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.

Samuel Butler

Freedom - an occupied space which must be reoccupied every day.

John Ralston Saul

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

Henry David Thoreau

A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.

Lucius Accius

I have been a gigantic Rolling Stones fan since approximately the Spanish-American War.

Dave Barry

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.

Hilaire Belloc

Never deprive someone of hope it might be all they have.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.

William Lloyd Garrison

Although initially only few in numbers, it seems my gray hairs have launched an effective peer-pressure campaign intended to convert the others.

Steve Maraboli

Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections?

Elizabeth Janeway