Before me floats an image, man or shade, / Shade more than man, more image than a shade.

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

There is another world, but it is in this one.

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.

Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!

But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.

One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.

Meditation on the Holy Scriptures is sweet to the soul.

We are the eyes in the darkness

Your life is a gift from the Creator. Your gift back to the Creator is what you do with your life.

The camera adds a certain sheen to things. Something about being frozen in time really makes things sparkle.

We mark some days as fair, some as foul, because we do not see that the character of every day as identical

Churches have given us great treasures such as music and architecture. Whether that pays for the harm they have done is another matter.

We are divided of course between liking to feel the past strange and liking to feel it familiar.

There's science and there's science, is all I'm saying. Where humans are the subjects, it's mostly not science

It is in the nature of any effort to leave something serviceable behind it.

Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don't always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on.