It is more important to let a child's imagination develop than it is to labor to inculcate in him or her some correct ethical point of view.

O woman shapely as a swan.

To Meath of the pastures, From wet hills by the sea, Through Leitrim and Longford, Go my cattle and me.

O farmer, strong farmer! You can spend at the fair, But your face you must turn To your crops and your care

Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.

Madam, I have just come from a country where people are hanged if they talk.

When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.

One thing I encourage a lot of people to realize and do is to just have an adventure.

Hatred does not cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth.

Education is not a race, with winners and losers. It's not a commodity to be bought and sold.

Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.

I think the people who've been the most overconfident in our business in the last decade have been the people that called themselves risk managers.

As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.

No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.