The Irish are people who will never have leaders, for at the great moment they always desert them. They have produced one skeleton--Parnell--never a man.

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.

We are offspring of God.

Everything is useful which contributes to fix in the principles and practices of virtue.

Meditation is not evasion

A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.

God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.

In Las Vegas, people know that the odds are stacked against them. On Wall Street, they manipulate the odds while you are playing the game.

The real cake isn't HAVING what you want, it's DOING what you want

There are times when the ocean is not the ocean - not blue, not even water, but some violent explosion of energy and danger: fierceness on a scale only gods can summon.

Sheep. Looting. Cousins." Lucien cursed and got out of bed.

It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn.