I long for truth, and yet I cannot stay from that My better self disowns, For a man's attention Brings such satisfaction To the craving in my bones.

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.

It dims the brightest spirit, to stare into the dark.

The more I love the person, the more rejection I recieved.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

I think I've always felt as a band and as a musician and a music business person, I've always felt like an outsider, period.

I had that trapped feeling, like some sort of a poor insect that you've put inside a downturned glass, and it tries to climb up the sides, and it can't, and it can't, and it can't.

Life, lift the full goblet--away with all sorrow-- The circle of friendship what freedom would sever? To-day is our own, and a fig for to-morrow-- Here's to the Fourth and our country forever.

Just write a little bit every day. Even if it's for only half an hour — write, write, write.

There was nothing, nothing to depend on. And why was I surprised?

It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.

I am confident that the British people will not be intimidated by terrorism.