No one who has any self-respect stays in Ireland, but flees afar as though from a country that has undergone the visitation of an angered Jove.

People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

Shut your eyes and see.

Absence, the highest form of presence.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.

Peace, sweet peace finally comes to men when they humbly yield to the gentle pressure of the Spirit.

Never give up. Things may be hard, but if you quit trying they'll never get better. Stop worrying and start trusting God. It will be worth it.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.

Ultimately we've only got humanity to work with. It's only clay we've got.

I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs.

The denial of suffering is, in fact a better definition of illness than its acceptance.

I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves that we can be ready and able to come to our own defence when and wherever needed.

Allow yourself to trust joy and embrace it. You will find you dance with everything.