More and more I’ve become convinced that the great treasure to possess is the unknown.

The Irish, as a race, have the oral tradition in their blood. A direct question to them is an anathema, but in other cases, a mere syllable of a hero's name will elicit whole chapters of stories.

Don't you know that everybody's got a Fairyland of their own?

There’s great beauty on this world if you just have the eyes to see it.

All of us are subject to being passive to the social ills around us. It's a struggle not to become, by staying silent, an accomplice.

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.

Child and serpent, star and stone — all one.

If we are going to teach the world to stop hating the different, the other, then we’re going to have to start with children.

Once we have accepted the story we cannot escape the story's fate.

Tea is balm for the soul, don't you agree?

I was raised to believe that everybody has a responsibility to their community.

Women often get dropped from memory, and then history.

Life is as fair as you perceive it to be.

I had choosen the path of the black sheep rather than that of the unicorns and puppies.

I had already learned from more than a decade of political life that I was going to be criticized no matter what I did so I might as well be criticized for something I wanted to do.

You can't say your favorite kind of cake is birthday cake, that's like saying your favorite kind of cereal is breakfast cereal.

There never has been a man in the game who could put mind and muscle together quicker and with better judgment than Robinson.

The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest.

Everyone is ambition. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or to do.

There is never any turning back Gemma. You have to go forward. Make the future yours.

You are sexually pure when no sexual gratification comes from anyone or anything but your wife.