There was someone there and they had been there. There was no one there. There was someone there and they had been there and they had not left but there was no one there.

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.

There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.

I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.

The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.

A goodlookin horse is like a goodlookin woman, he said. They're always more trouble than what they're worth. What a man needs is just one that will get the job done.

Finally he said that among men there was no such communion as among horses and the notion that men can be understood at all was probably an illusion.

By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker.

In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will.

I dont know what happens to country.

When an idea for solving a problem suddenly presents itself, ask yourself if all circumstances related to the problem were properly analyzed.

There are goods that are outside trade and in the public domain and that should be reserved and protected.

I decided that it might be interesting to have terrible things happen to orphans over and over again.

Nelson Mandela and myself had a wonderful relationship - he was a special man and will be missed.

The countries that have collected the most development aid are also the ones that are in the worst shape. Despite the billions that have poured in to Africa, the continent remains poor.

And when thou art weary I'll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.

Most of us die with our music underplayed...We should try to step out of our comfort zones and do the things we're capable of.

When I was small I didn't really know what i was doing. I just sang and it came out sounding pretty good. I just do it and it happens.

Sean Óg ó Hailpín.... his father's from Fermanagh, his mother's from Fiji, neither a hurling stronghold.

Death a friend that alone can bring the peace his treasures cannot purchase, and remove the pain his physicians cannot cure.