If you want to find Cherry-Tree Lane all you have to do is ask the Policeman at the cross-roads.

The Irish, as a race, have the oral tradition in their blood. A direct question to them is an anathema, but in other cases, a mere syllable of a hero's name will elicit whole chapters of stories.

Don't you know that everybody's got a Fairyland of their own?

There’s great beauty on this world if you just have the eyes to see it.

All of us are subject to being passive to the social ills around us. It's a struggle not to become, by staying silent, an accomplice.

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.

More and more I’ve become convinced that the great treasure to possess is the unknown.

Child and serpent, star and stone — all one.

If we are going to teach the world to stop hating the different, the other, then we’re going to have to start with children.

Once we have accepted the story we cannot escape the story's fate.

Tea is balm for the soul, don't you agree?

All the music I write is a search for myself.

You can go as far as you believe it, but through prayer you can exceed it.

Figure out what you care about...and then care about it

What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness.

Permaculture challenges what we're doing and thinking - and to that extent it's sedition.

Let nature take its course and your tools will strike at the right moment.

It was the Congress that imposed 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' it was certainly my position, my recommendation to get us out of an even worse outcome that could have occurred.

I like ideas, frameworks, and figures.

There are already current laws on the books and there are - and jurisdictions. The IRS can come in and do any kind of investigation of a person.

The absence of disease is not health.