Why should anyone steal a watch when he could steal a bicycle?

What you think is the point is not the point at all but only the beginning of the sharpness.

A wise old owl once lived in a wood, the more he heard the less he said, the less he said the more he heard, let's emulate that wise old bird.

The first beginnings of wisdom...is to ask questions but never to answer any.

When things go wrong and will not come right, Though you do the best you can, When life looks black as the hour of night, A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.

The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at crossroads.

When money's tight and is hard to get And your horse has also ran, When all you have is a heap of debt A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.

Rome wasn't built in A.D.

Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.

Another day gone and no jokes.

Descartes spent far too much time in bed subject to the persistent hallucination that he was thinking. You are not free from a similar disorder.

No need to try to explain to others what's in your heart. Some things are just between you and God.

If you endure every struggle, you will find your potential strength.

Endurance is a good virtue.

Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries.

Whatever you do, make sure you want to write more than you want to be a writer. Make sure you want to act more than you want to be an actor. That is what will sustain you.

On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as presents and a few days later I decided to cycle to India.

I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago, because a mind was made fo figure things out, not to read the same page recurrently.

She was with me. She did all of those things and so many more, things I would never tell anyone, and she never even loved me. Now that’s love.

The frontiers we broke into in the '60s are still largely unexplored.

It would not be possible for Noah to do in our day what he was permitted to do in his own ... The inspector would come and examine the Ark, and make all sorts of objections.