O bid me mount and sail up thereAmid the cloudy wrack, For Peg and Meg and Paris' loveThat had so straight a back, Are gone away, and some that stayHave changed their silk for sack.

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.

The early autumn sun glinted on the water, an enormous mirror ground to powder and scattered.

As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.

Truth seldom is pleasant; it is almost invariably bitter.

There's bound to be a recovery in [capital spending] sometime soon. We have had basically no capital investment for about year. At some point, machinery wears out, and you've got to replace it.

In there?' She nodded. 'You want us to go into the tortoise?' Another nod. 'It's alive.' Another nod.

In the wintertime I like macaroni and cheese.

Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.

Who are we? That is the big question. And essentially we are just an upright-walking, big-brained, super-intelligent ape.

I'm 27 and guys are pitching into their 40s now. For unfortunate reasons, I haven't been healthy since 2005. But I feel that I have a lot of great years ahead of me.

Brains aren't designed to get results. They go in DIRECTIONS.