Where would the Irish be without someone to be Irish at?

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

We are minor in everything but our passions.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.

You have to be the bravest person in the world to go out every day, being yourself when no one likes who you are.

NEWT: Now there's absolutely nothing for you to worry about.JACOB: Tell me - has anyone ever believed you when you told them not to worry?NEWT: My philosophy is that worrying means you suffer twice.

Woman has nothing but her affections,--and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.

Make every decision based on your last years of life instead of your next 10.

My parents told me I'd point to a bed of flowers and say 'Pink. Pretty,' before I knew any other words.

I'm right at a time when I'm strongly finding my identity inside of my work.

Violence and war lead only to death.

Happiness is liberty from everything that makes us unhappy.

The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all.

He loves to sit and hear me sing, Then, laughing, sports and plays with me; Then stretches out my golden wing, And mocks my loss of liberty.