New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a wild goat.

What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.

All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.

It is a good deed to forget a poor joke.

New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a wild goat.

Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.

I am a drinker with writing problems.

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 have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.

The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.

I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

I am a daylight atheist.

I wish I'd been a mixed infant.

I say myself no depressed words just depressed minds.

Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.

Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.

I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.

If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.

There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.

It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.

Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.

One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.

The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.

The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.

At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one’s lost self.

At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with ones lost self.

Whats a crook only a businessman without a shop.

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.

Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.

Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never could see why spiritual life should not be conditioned on the same terms as all life, i. e., correspondence with environment.

It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism.

My hates have always occupied my mind much more actively and have given greater spiritual satisfactions than my friendships.

Maybe I'm being philosophical and spiritual, but I believe that if you put negative energy out there that that is what will come back.

It makes a difference what we choose to experience during sleep. Many of us think of sleep as a chance to get away from it all. But sleep is also a chance to return to the joys of our spiritual heritage - our universal awareness.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.

A Christian has no right being in a fight unless it's a spiritual fight.

When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however.

Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world.

This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood.

Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.

I've found a more personal, pagan kind of religion to satisfy the spiritual side of things.

Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual.

In my songs, the sex is all subliminal. It's subliminal, spiritual.

The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.

In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.