我们爱尔兰人太诗意以至不能做诗人，我们的国家里充满才华横溢的失败者，可我们是自希腊人以来最伟大的说空话之人。
We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.
预测未来的最好方式就是创造未来。
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself.