I am persuaded that our intellects at twenty contain all the truths we shall ever find

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.

How could he possibly bow deeply enough to honor a thousand-year-old samurai queen?

The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account.

It is only by making the past alive again for a person that a true growth in the present is facilitated. If the past is cut off, the future does not exist.

The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.

Superiority and success doesn't favor good effort or self-esteem... The mentally precise and physically fit win, while the mediocre and obtuse take solace in hopeful cliches.

Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.

But now that I've matured, I've realized that - at the end of the day - what's really important is the work, not what people think of me.

Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them.

The theater is the thing I love doing most.

Your greatest failure will precede your greatest success.