I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth.

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 greatest wealth is to live content with little.

I recently took up ice sculpting. Last night I made an ice cube. This morning I made 12, I was prolific.

There is something in the Olympics, indefinable, springing from the soul, that must be preserved.

I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.

And through the opening or clearing in your own awareness may come flashing higher truths, subtler revelations, profound connections. For a moment you might even touch eternity.

If there is to be peace in the home, There must be peace in the heart.

I feel like people might be slightly less inclined to hate me as much as they did in the past, and I think part of that is selling fewer records.

Why wouldn't you write to escape yourself as much as you might write to express yourself? It's far more interesting to write about others.

It would seem that in history it's never a tooth for a tooth, but a thousand, a hundred thousand for one.

This is the normal way with birthdays, see? Amazingly enough, they arrive on the same day, every year.