Ireland is a fatal disease fatal to Englishmen and doubly fatal to Irishmen.

Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

We live in our desires rather than in our achievements

Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells!

The difficulty of life is in the choice.

So long as one does not despair so long as one doesn't look upon life bitterly things work out fairly well in the end.

Tis the last rose of summer. Left blooming alone.

After all there is but one race - humanity.

A literary movement consists of five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other cordially.

But there's nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream.

We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.

I have gotten where I am today by refusing to stay where I was. Change is something I have done over and over again.

In general there is something puzzling about the fact that the most renowned figures in chess - Morphy, Pillsbury, Capablanca and Fischer - were born in America.

He pares his apple that will cleanly feed.

Our Lord is the ground from whom our prayer grows and in his love and grace he himself gives us our prayers.

Hitler at the end thought that he himself was one more casualty in the war.

I'm always looking for an opportunity to bring progressive Democrats together with some conservative libertarian types, because there are places where we can agree.

An excellent introduction to the rise and fall of the British Raj, accurate, succinct, and engaging.

If I keep breathing, then I have to keep living, and if I keep living, then I have to keep hurting, and I can't - not like this.