Myself I must remake.

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.

And I wanted to believe that there could be an us. That some way, somehow there would be an us somewhere in the future that I could not see.

I don't think that ... one gets a flash of happiness once and never again it is there within you and it will come as certainly as death....

To say that an idea is fashionable is to say I think that it has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.

The self plays among the waves of existence. It surfaces, it comes up for a while, and then it disappears again.

A sense of duty imprisons you.

Do I remain a revolutionary? Intellectually -- without a doubt. But am I prepared to give my body to the struggle or even my comforts? This is what I puzzle about.

Me, what's that after all? An arbitrary limitation of being bounded by the people before and after and on either side. Where they leave off I begin, and vice versa.

Go on saying, I am free. Never mind if the next moment delusion comes and says, I am bound. Dehypnotize the whole thing.

All things are ordered by God, but His providence takes in our free agency, as well as His own sovereignty.

The secret of a happy life is to delight in duty. When duty becomes delight, then burdens become blessings