Stories are like birds flying, here and gone in a moment.

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.

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

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

Think and keep quiet among those you don't trust.

You know you’ve reached the end of a relationship: when your lover now demands that your jokes be funny before they laugh.

I hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it's a different zone altogether and that hunger for winning is always there.

When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.

My dad was a Methodist minister.

As she read the ten commandments for the first time, a Chinese woman said, "I don't see how anyone can very well get on without them."

We need to go inward instead of outward, and learn to trust our own inner guide, preserving our identity and finding the answers from within.

My son thinks I'm hilarious, but he's only 1.

Most works of art are, necessarily, bad...; one suffers through the many for the few.

The full truth of this odd matter is what the world has long been looking for and the public curiosity is sure to welcome.