When I clamber to the heights of sleep, Or when I grow excited with wine, suddenly I meet your face.

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.

Oh, dear God and baby Jesus in the manger, my eyes!” Dee shrieked. “My eyes!

One pain is lessened by another’s anguish. ... Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die.

The universe is an intelligence test.

We do not like to praise, and seldom praise anyone without self-interest.

This whole urban rap thing needs to be pulled back some. The ghetto is being glorified, and there's nothing good about the ghetto except getting out of one.

The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong.

I think your body is just a little bit stronger after pregnancy.

Peers can be the best teachers, because they're the ones that remember what it's like to not understand.

Resistance to oppression is second nature.

Communism is fascism with a human face.