I have read somewhere that in the Emperor's palace at Byzantium was a tree made of gold and silver, and artificial birds that sang.

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.

Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they'll wait for you forever pay attention to them and they always love you back.

There is, perhaps, no greater hardship at present inflicted on mankind in civilised and free countries than the necessity of listening to sermons.

Art forms that appeal to [leftists] tend to focus on ... defeat and despair ... as if there were no hope of accomplishing anything through rational calculation.

Good artists exist simply in what they make and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

There's so much goop inside of us, man," he said, "and it all just wants to get out.

Most business people today are not going to invest in the uncertainty that exists in America.

They make money the old fashioned way... they earn it.

If we are honest with ourselves, most of us will have to admit that we live out our lives in an ocean of fear.

Artificial Intelligence is whatever hasn't been done yet.

A warming of this magnitude would risk the end of civilization as we know it by the end of this century.