An aged man is but a paltry thing, A tattered coat upon a stick, unlessSoul clap its hands and sing, and louder singFor every tatter in its mortal dress

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

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.

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

Every broken heart has one time or another asked, "What is important to me now?

Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night.

The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives.

A little bit of attention and kindness can totally change a whole life, and a lack of that can do the same.

What a miserable thing life is: you're in clover; only the clover isn't good enough.

Create a need for closure.

I don't like people telling me what to do, or trying to MAKE me write songs.

Haste is never more dangerous than when you feel that victory is in your grasp.

The novel I am constantly writing is always the same one, and it might be described as a variously sliced-up or torn-apart book of myself.

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun