It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

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.

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

O Lord save as all!

Reading gives liberty to your mind.

There are some things you learn best in calm and some in storm.

The world will be saved by one or two people.

Baseball life is a tough life on the family.

Color helps to express light, not the physical phenomenon, but the only light that really exists, that in the artist's brain.

You just can't imagine the kind of guy he was without seeing him play. He was a circus, a play, a movie, all rolled into one.

the car, by bisecting the human outline, diminishes it, producing a race of half-people in a motion not of their own making

People who care nothing about money probably exist or we wouldn't hear so much about them. But I've never encountered one in the flesh.

Live fire cooking and barbecue have been so intimately linked with human evolution and history and politics. Everything we do, barbecue informs it in some way.