Alas! the culture of an Irishman is an enterprise to be undertaken with a sort of moral bog hoe.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.

The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.

There can be no greater motivator for evil than a huge sense of injustice!

For a second I was almost jealous of the clouds. Why was he looking to them for an escape when I was right here beside him?

We just want to make the walls cave in and the ceiling collapse. Music is meant to be played as loudly as possible, really raw and punchy, and I'll punch out anyone who doesn't like it the way I do.

I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.

He'd half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.

As far as the anxiety, I have no idea about it. I don't feel like I have any nervousness out there. I'm just a guy who really cares about being competitive and that's the bottom line.

The stairway to the ministry is not a grand staircase but a back stairwell that leads down to the servants’ quarters.

I have no contracts with my clients; just a handshake is enough.

Those who achieve great things are the ones willing to be scared but not scared off. If you dream big and take risks, impossible becomes just a word.

Animals cannot speak, but can you and I not speak for them and represent them? Let us all feel their silent cry of agony and let us all help that cry to be heard in the world.