Taste is the feminine of genius.

Whether we wake or we sleep, Whether we carol or weep, The Sun with his Planets in chime, Marketh the going of Time.

I am all for the short and merry life.

A book of verses underneath the bough, A jug of wine, a loaf of bread-and thou.

Leinster House does not inspire the brightest ideas.

A book of verses underneath the boughA flask of wine, a loaf of bread and thouBeside me singing in the wildernessAnd wilderness is paradise now.

Tis all a Checkerboard of Nights and Days Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates, and stays, And one by one back in the Closet lays.

I personally believe this: We have only today

I realized that I could never really function fully on this earth until I understood this: Until you know WHOSE you are, you will never know WHO you are.

The people who ask questions decide the quality of their conversation.

Invader and invaded held on to their fistfuls of earth, but in the end, the earth outlived the hands that held it.

Life is messy, and it's okay if you are too! We all screw up, that doesn't have to define us.

Good people are found, not changed.

People are people. All that celebrity tagging doesn't bother me at all.

The confidence with which a Sovereign is invested, is solid only when it is sanctioned by the suffrages of the people, who clothed him with the supreme magistracy.

If I could choose, I would say [I would like to be filming with] Natalie Portman and Leonardo DiCaprio.

Is it that you hate this president or that you hate America?