Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as before.

There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better words, too.

It is better to be tied to any thorny bush than to be with a cross man.

We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country of the Young along with it.

The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart.

It's best make changes little by little, the same as you'd put clothes upon a growing child.

She is a girl would not be afraid to walk the whole world with herself.

As to the old history of Ireland, the first man ever died in Ireland was Partholan, and he is buried, and his greyhound along with him, at some place in Kerry.

It takes madness to find out madness.

I said, in talking, that I felt more and more the time wasted that was not spent in Ireland.

Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good place.

Give people time. Give people space. Don’t beg anyone to stay. Let them roam. What’s meant for you will always be yours.

You must seek the divinity within with all your heart, soul and mind.

While many may claim that these virtues are old-fashioned, they are essential materials for building a solid and worthwhile foundation for your life that will never go out of style.

Tiago had heard of what some called the 'human database' or 'omnilogos', but nothing could have prepared him for this.

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.

A hungry man is an angry one.

My dad's from there, and I have relatives there, but I don't think I've been to Chicago since I was like 9.

I play piano every day. I enjoy that.

I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.

The real demon is success-the anxieties engendered by this quest are relentless, degrading, corroding. What is worse, there is no end to this escalation of desire.