'Tis writ on Paradise's gate, Woe to the dupe that yields to fate!

Your love Should never be offered to the mouth of a Stranger, Only to someone Who has the valor and daring To cut pieces of their soul off with a knife Then weave them into a blanket To protect you.

Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.

I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, 'love lifts me.'

I wish I could show you...the astonishing light of your own being.

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.

I am in love with every church And mosque And temple And any kind of shrine Because I know it is there That people say the different names Of the One God.

Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.

Be kind to your sleeping heart. Take it out into the vast fields of light...And let it breathe.

This place where you are right now, God circled on a map for you.

You yourself are your own obstacle, rise above yourself.

Memories? Pheh. Those just get in the way of living.

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

You bury your childhood here and there. It waits for you, all your life, to come back and dig it up.

I love to write music. I love melodies, I love playing guitar. I just do it for fun.

It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self- revelations.

The end and aim of all education is the development of character.

We must repay goodness and wickedness: but why exactly to the person who has done us a good or a wicked turn?

No one who has any self-respect stays in Ireland, but flees afar as though from a country that has undergone the visitation of an angered Jove.

The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.

It's funny how making odd noises can get you into strange situations sometimes.