But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

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!

By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.

One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.

Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.

What he wanted to say was that two thousand years of peace could be undone in a month of war.

I am a continuation like the rain is the continuation of the cloud.

Children contend with parents who are physically close, tantalizingly so, but mentally elsewhere.

In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community, and the smaller characters are important to the story.

Don't live to please everyone. Embrace those who enjoy your company and to hell with the haters.

One needs both leisure and money to make a successful book.

There aren't very many women of color in positions of power, period. Much less on television.

All life is the struggle, the effort to be itself.

What is funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously.

It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it — in other words, by becoming civilized — that men become fully human.