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

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.

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

He lives down in a ribcage in the dry leaves of a heart.

Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

The unsuspected is the daily fare of the traveler in Thibet.

I'm a firm believer in if you work hard you should play hard. So I try to keep my life as balanced as possible to keep my sanity.

I'm naive enough to think that love is always good no matter how long ago, no matter the circumstances.

It is a royal privilege to do good and be ill spoken of.

The more you love, the more loving you become. That's just the way it works. It is a generosity of spirit.

Back in Bible days, there were these famous schools of the prophets, but some of the ones Jesus chose didn't come through that route - and not to say that they weren't good, but I'm comfortable.

The reason that the book exists is because there was a gap in you. You wrote the book to fulfill that gap in some way.

The universe really is motion & nothing else.