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

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.

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

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.

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

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

And thus we all are nighingThe truth we fear to know:Death will end our cryingFor friends that come and go.

Since she moved in, Carter found himself in the mood for a lot of things he hadn't been before. Crispy salmon wasn't one of them.

The weight of absence is as much a feature of any library as the constriction of order and space.

In the long run every government is the exact symbol of its people with their wisdom and unwisdom.

Blessed art Thou, Lord, who giveth suffering As a divine remedy for our impurities.

Anybody who is an ambitious politician would never ever aspire to a Vice Presidency. And yet, people find themselves in that position, and so, therein lies the rub.

Life isn't all haha hehe.

Resolve to be always beginning-to be a beginner!

Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Now's the time to take a chance, come on we've gotta make a stand. What do we have to lose the choice is in our hands.