A newspaper is a mirror reflecting the public, a mirror more or less defective, but still a mirror.

A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.

Opportunity comes like a snail, and once it has passed you it changes into a fleet rabbit and is gone.

The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't come out and those outside don't want to get in.

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting.

Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one.

Use a picture. It's worth a thousand words.

Writing good editorials is chiefly telling the people what they think, not what you think.

That Edison or Lincoln could have been Edison or Lincoln after four years of Harvard is improbable.

Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things

Music is pretty much the lifestyle, not the music itself. The lifestyle really pulled me off the street. Made me want to do something organized and positive.

The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you're just boring.

I think my work is about the different strategies man has invented to deal with desire, frustration, fear of death, exhaustion. It's very much about life on earth.

The full he empties, and the empty he fills.

Irishness is not primarily a question of birth or blood or language; it is the condition of being involved in the Irish situation, and usually of being mauled by it.

Whether the ice caps melt, or expand - whatever happens - the anthropogenic global warming theorists claim it confirms their theory. A perfect example of a pseudo-science like astrology.

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despite the conventional in anything, even the arts. I paint canvasses on the floor and drove one art teacher out of his mind. But that's just the way I paint best.

But I’ve also been known to answer to ‘sweetheart’ or ‘handsome.

Not for one single day Can I discern my way, But this I surely know- Who gives the day Will show the way, So I securely go.