Too many things are occurring for even a big heart to hold.

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.

You'll never reach your destination if you stop to throw stones at every dog that barks.

War, hate, jealousy, racism - what are they but manifestations of fear?

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

I am, in the end, what you made me.

I think in places like Pennsylvania, there's folks who want our next president to talk like a hawk, but fly like a dove.

Attempt something so great for God that it is doomed to fail unless God is in it, and you're in it as well.

I would love to see no more ghettos but the things is, there's no diplomacy in the ghetto. They want to tell you something, they tell you straight!

There's a lot to be said about what's happening to our ocean, big companies polluting it with their oil and all the raw garbage that's being spilled in there

Knowledge is when you learn something new every day. Wisdom is when you let something go every day.

When away from home always be like the kind of man you would care to take into your own home.