I suppose we all have our recollections of our earlier holidays, all bristling with horror.

What you think is the point is not the point at all but only the beginning of the sharpness.

A wise old owl once lived in a wood, the more he heard the less he said, the less he said the more he heard, let's emulate that wise old bird.

The first beginnings of wisdom...is to ask questions but never to answer any.

When things go wrong and will not come right, Though you do the best you can, When life looks black as the hour of night, A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.

The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at crossroads.

When money's tight and is hard to get And your horse has also ran, When all you have is a heap of debt A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.

Rome wasn't built in A.D.

Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.

Another day gone and no jokes.

Descartes spent far too much time in bed subject to the persistent hallucination that he was thinking. You are not free from a similar disorder.

There is no relationship between bliss and peace. Peace is dependent on the pudgal (Complex of intake and output

I have loved and lost many a time, but along the way I have found myself.

A city no worse than others, a city rich and vigorous and full of pride, a city lost and beaten and full of emptiness.

[On culture] It's living the core values when you hire; when you write an email; when you are working on a project; when you are walking in the hall.

Every girl is a goddess.

The history of mathematics is a history of horrendously difficult problems being solved by young people too ignorant to know that they were impossible.

If you feel like eating, eat. Let your body tell you what it wants.

Hopelessness kills. Numerous studies in humans show that we can die as a result of dire beliefs and a sense of overwhelming futility.

Love is probably the most powerful force in the cosmos, capable of creating miracles.

I used to roll up: this is a hold up, ain't nuthin funny. Stop smiling, be still, don't nuthin move but the money.