Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.

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.

We all have a book in us. The first step is recognising this. Writing it is a whole new journey.

The victim is always morally superior to the master

It is like we are having a harvest of destruction in our continent.

Well, you know that old saying, “Keep your friends close and make out with your enemies.

Fear is what prevents the flowering of the mind.

My two sisters and I sang all the time. Whenever we cleaned the kitchen, we sang in three-part harmony.

We must get rid of the habit of classing all women together politically and thinking of the 'woman's vote' as one and indivisible.

Prison experience puts distance between me and any person who hasn't been there, done that.

I think everyone has the ability to be loved.