A woman doesn't care if she hasn't a stomach, provided she looks as if she hasn't.

What you think is the point is not the point at all but only the beginning of the sharpness.

A wise old owl once lived in a wood, the more he heard the less he said, the less he said the more he heard, let's emulate that wise old bird.

The first beginnings of wisdom...is to ask questions but never to answer any.

When things go wrong and will not come right, Though you do the best you can, When life looks black as the hour of night, A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.

The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at crossroads.

When money's tight and is hard to get And your horse has also ran, When all you have is a heap of debt A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.

Rome wasn't built in A.D.

Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.

Another day gone and no jokes.

Descartes spent far too much time in bed subject to the persistent hallucination that he was thinking. You are not free from a similar disorder.

Your supporters can help you think in new ways, solve problems, and burst through barriers.

Want to give a very strong energy to someone with a simple act? Then, smile!

I played back every empty sigh, every night I slept alone, and saw what I never wanted to see before - a lost girl crying out to me for help. I just noticed too late.

The union of the mind and intuition which brings about illumination, and the development which the Sufis seek, is based upon love.

God's dice always have a lucky roll.

If you can speak about what you care about to a person you disagree with without denigrating them or insulting them, then you may actually be heard.

And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.

It used to be when we said, ''til death do us part,' death parted us pretty soon. That's why marriages used to last forever. Everybody was dead.

I'm hugely honored [with the Man Booker Prize].

Don't envy someone else's gift. Discover your own.