Nothing but stillness can remain when hearts are full Of their own sweetness, bodies of their loveliness.

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.

See the world anew and write down the bones of it.

Family: a foundation! Family: a ‘cloth’ that keeps the ‘body’!

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.

I've got more friends than I've ever had in my life at the age of 39 - although given that I didn't have any friends until the age of 27, it doesn't say much - because I found the internet.

People on a mission are unstoppable. God bless them for it. It would be a poorer, more miserable world without them.

We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures.

I have a couple [of grandsons] that are in college playing lacrosse. It's great and it's fun. But they all also play golf a little bit.

I can always see something of myself in the characters I play.

I've never felt a desire (and I don't believe I ever shall) to bring the public to my work... a certain popularity seems to me the least desirable of things.