Laughter not time destroyed my voice And put that crack in it, And when the moon's pot-bellied I get a laughing fit.

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.

What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.

One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.

It's just better to be yourself than to try to be some version of what you think the other person wants.

When you fail to educate a child, you are storing him up for a future disaster.” - Abdulazeez Henry Musa.

I decry the injustice of my wounds, only to look down and see that I am holding a smoking gun in one hand and a fistful of ammunition in the other.

Life must be something more than dilettante speculation.

I've always been the kind of person that doesn't like to trespass, but sometimes you just find yourself over the line.

I'm a working woman of 80 trying to work out what the image I can project is. How I can do it with, you know, dignity.

Life is nothing unless death has been faced down.

I don't think people have seen yet what I can really do. Only appetizers!

Somehow I understood without the storm I couldn't know myself.

Most Americans have so much crap, that you could lose most of it and still have way more stuff than the average Canadian.