Give to these children, new from the world, Rest far from men. Is anything better, anything better? Tell us it then.

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.

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.

The existence of the writer is an argument against the existence of the soul, for the soul has obviously taken flight from the real ego, but not improved itself, only become a writer.

Nobody would have been able to understand the depth of my joy and the extent of my happiness unless they had themselves gone through what I just had.

I know someone young whose husband left her for another woman. He later came back and wanted to rekindle the relationship. It was too late. His ex-wife had found someone else. Good for her.

A place to keep all your secrets

If I had a bucket list, I'd say raising my four girls to be strong, good women would be No. 1.

Everybody's born to be different, that's the one thing that makes us the same.

It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest.

Sometimes it's worth getting lost to see who will come looking for us.

I see the collapse of the Soviet Union as a great tragedy of the XX century.

Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke.