There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.

Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her.

I knew the stars, the flowers, and the birds, The gray and wintry sides of many glens, And did but half remember human words, In converse with the mountains, moors, and fens.

The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.

Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life.

It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a model that has served primitive races since men first went to sea.

A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, for he will be going out on a day when he shouldn't.

They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World.

No man at all can be living forever and we must be satisfied.

Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms.

What is the price of a thousand horses against a son where there is one son only?

Love simply is.

Try me, and you start LOVING!!

All of us at one point end face up in a ditch, but only a few will choose to look up at the stars and dream.

... one may live in a big house and yet have no comfort.

People respond differently to the same image and put on what they want or hope or feel onto that image.

I've been hurt so many times I don't have the balls for it anymore.

Humans are basically good. That's why it takes so much training to march march march kill kill kill kill.

If we are serious about our discipleship, Jesus will eventually request each of us to do those very things which are most difficult for us to do.

If something comes at me of course I'm gonna handle my business but I'm not the type to provoke the bullshit so I don't really get a lot of that.

The fiercest agonies have shortest reign; And after dreams of horror, comes again The welcome morning with its rays of peace.