The Muse is mute when public men Applaud a modern throne.

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.

What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.

One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.

Even though I was fairly certain God wasn't Ted Bundy, I kept an open mind, since this phone call was getting a bit confusing.

The biggest gift to oneself is affording yourself a chance to learn.

There were many words piled up inside my chest, stories waiting to be told. I wanted to hand all this knowledge to one other person, neither a master nor a disciple. I sought an equal - a companion.

If life must not be taken too seriously - then so neither must death.

To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.

If an artist is any good at all, then he or she will have a later phase that's more interesting than the early one.

From the outset, however, this whole controversy has been plagued by tacit assumptions, very often of a philosophical rather than a physical character.

Friendship is one of the greatest luxuries of life.

It is a happy woman when the spirit time is come, that finds herself in the presence of a good man.

Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled.