Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

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.

You don’t always win, but every time you lose, you get better.

Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds.

Perhaps one never seems so much at one's ease as when one has to play a part.

It would be as naive to study the song of the nightingale, as it would be ridiculous to try and win a King's Gambit against a representative of the old chess guard.

Poets themselves, tho' liars by profession, always endeavour to give an air of truth to their fictions.

We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and makes us wild, touchless beasts feeding on technicolor prairies and rivers.

Blessed are those who know what on earth they are here on earth to do and set themselves about the business of doing it.

I don't pick the roles. Your agent gets a call for you and you go and they all get together, everybody has fun at the reading, and they say, "There's chemistry here." So that's how it happens.

Focus, Amy. Just because he looked great in the saddle did not mean he wasn't an axe murderer.

To become convinced that you can succeed is the first requisite to success.