Literature is always personal, always one man's vision of the world, one man's experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others.

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.

Positive thought + positive action = positive results.

Our faces were no more than ten inches apart, but she was light years away from me.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

Still, there remains so much to relish and remember.

Today, it is more important than ever to raise human consciousness, so that technology becomes a means of empowerment, not destruction.

I would like to see it go back to the wood racquets. To see the touch put back in tennis.

It is hope, not despair, that undoes us all.

I told my doctor I think my wife has VD. He gave himself a shot of penicillin.

It's okay to be fat. So you're fat. Just be fat and shut up about it.

When you transform your mind, everything you experience is transformed.