I have come to realize that all my trouble with living has come from fear and smallness within me.

I looked to the ceiling and told God, “God, next time I want an adventure, strike me with lightning. You have my permission.

The trees were his chapel and the hillsides his cathedral.

Innovations succeed when failure is seen as a learning step to great success.

Diseases aren't cured by giving them a name.

In Ireland a writer is looked upon as a failed conversationalist.

If you make me your authority, you harm yourself because you will not see things for yourself, and you harm me too because you refuse to see me as I am.

It was not one folly that Shakespeare talked about. If Love truly is but a myriad of follies then I have committed them all, that can mean only one thing - I loved her truly, madly, deeply!

We're not always in the position that we want to be at. We're constantly growing, we're constantly making mistakes, we're constantly trying to express ourselves and trying to actualize our dreams.

A hobby is only fun if you don't have time to do it.

Waste not thy time in windy argument but let the matter drop.