"Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart."

"I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is hard enough."

"The world is a much more spiritual place than we imagine, and a much more material one too."

"The mystical life is at the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write."

"In a battle like Ireland's, which is one of poverty against wealth, we must prove our sincerity by making ourselves unpopular to wealth. We must accept the baptism of the gutter."