Beautiful is the bloom of youth, but it lasts only for a short time.

Beauty is a delightful prejudice.

Trying will do anything in this world.

Sleeping we imagine what awake we wish; D ogs dream of bones, and fishermen of fish.

Faults are beauties in a lovers eye.

Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from friends.

Cicala to cicala is dear, and ant to ant, and hawks to hawks, but to me the muse and song.

Cats will always lie soft.

Men shall look on thee and murmur to each other, "Lo! how small Was the gift, and yet how precious! Friendship 's gifts are priceless all.

Age overtakes us all; Our temples first; then on o'er cheek and chin, Slowly and surely, creep the frosts of Time. Up and do somewhat, ere thy limbs are sere.

Man will ever stand in need of man.

Internet has grown to not only touch humans in a physical sense but also in an emotional sense.

Everything practical and applicable is impractictal and inapplicable to the inactive participant.

Every Irish person of my generation and earlier, we were raised Catholic and we'd have to learn it in school, we'd to learn the catechism by rote.

When we slow down, quiet the mind, and allow ourselves to feel hungry for something that we do not understand, we are dipping into the abundant well of spiritual longing.

I always imagine the world and myself above it and how minute one negative person's voice is in comparison to the amount of people that are in the world.

I thought being an adult meant knowing what you believe, but that has not been my experience.

Me and my harp was a love affair from way back.

I only do what comes from the heart

The methods and tools of science perennially breach barriers, granting me confidence that our epic march of insight into the operations of nature will continue without end.

Culture outperforms strategy every time; and culture with strategy is unbeatable.