What can be explained is not poetry.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

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.

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

No parson in the world ever pictured heaven so beautifully as they did, in their innocent talk

Wisdom gives you the understanding of how to live without being dependent oncircumstances in this life.

Aaron's therapist calls him a wounded bird, but, I ask you, who wouldn't care for a wounded bird? What kind of person sees a bird with a broken wing, cat on the horizon, and walks on by?

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

Impossibility never prevented anything from happening.

I span the entire geek spectrum.

Whoever wants me to talk, I'll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades.

We have an underdeveloped democracy and overdeveloped plutocracy.

Each day is a day that God has given us, and each moment of that day is in His hands.

One of the 12 steps is to admit that you're powerless, but I think that's bullshit. I think it's important to empower yourself by facing the stuff that triggers you.