It seems that laughter needs an echo.

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.

We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.

If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.

Intuition is a method of feeling one's way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it.

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

The motive power of democracy is love

Don’t let past disappointments rob you of future happiness.

There are two possibilities: accept the reality or change yourself to get ready to accept the reality.

The one who runs from his shadows sleeps with the devil at night.

6 months, 2 weeks, 4 days, and I still don’t know which month it was thenor what day it is now.Blurred out linesfrom hangovers to coffeeanother vagabond lost to love.

Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.

What was given to us by the past is adapted to the possibilities of the future.

You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.

If it was possible for me to adopt, I probably would, but no one's going to let me adopt.

The airline industry is full of bullshitters, liars and drunks. We excel at all three in Ireland.

Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.