This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.

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.

Imitate Jesus and Socrates

In the Imperialist Era, the foreign loan played an outstanding part as a means for young capitalist countries to acquire independence.

America is a country that would rather talk about race than class.

True prayer is a way of life, not just for use in cases of emergency.

Everyone wants to go to the party and the red carpet, but my life is 90% the work.

Reality hasn't really intervened in my mother's life since the seventies.

People like Mr. Hitchens are ready to fight to the last drop of other people's blood, and it's utterly and completely contemptible.

One must choose between making a man or a citizen, for one cannot make both at the same time.

As an anarchist, I cannot reconcile myself to any government.

The stage can be defined as a place where Shakespeare murdered Hamlet and a great many Hamlets murdered Shakespeare.