Not childhood alone, but the young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal.

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.

All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.

How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.

How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family's eye?

For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print.

Because...because...she came here with me.

Juice is a poor man’s dessert.

She would speak her story in Spanish and la señora Maureen would tell hers in English

Well, that explains the dreamy accent. And why transvestites would make him feel homesick.—SINGLE-MINDED

As the church get older and older it becomes harder to keep evangelism on the front burner because of all the competing issues that keeps pushing it back.

So I think it was a good thing It was a little surreal watching Leo scream 'I'm not going to die today!' with our music playing - that was the last thing on my mind when I wrote the song.

I would not want to put him in charge of snake control in Ireland.

I've made a few albums in such an autonomous way; it often has been exhausting. It's almost difficult to enjoy the process when you take on so much.

Do not take yourself too seriously. You have to learn not to be dismayed at making mistakes. No human being can avoid failures.

It's all these pundits, all these consultants, and the candidates, as if they're in a bubble leaving democracy off-limits.