You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.

The Irish, as a race, have the oral tradition in their blood. A direct question to them is an anathema, but in other cases, a mere syllable of a hero's name will elicit whole chapters of stories.

Don't you know that everybody's got a Fairyland of their own?

There’s great beauty on this world if you just have the eyes to see it.

All of us are subject to being passive to the social ills around us. It's a struggle not to become, by staying silent, an accomplice.

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.

More and more I’ve become convinced that the great treasure to possess is the unknown.

Child and serpent, star and stone — all one.

If we are going to teach the world to stop hating the different, the other, then we’re going to have to start with children.

Once we have accepted the story we cannot escape the story's fate.

Tea is balm for the soul, don't you agree?

I will love to be called a foolish man of peace, than to be named a wise man of war. Show me your weapons of war and I will show you my Bible of peace!

Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion.

Partisanship is not necessarily a bad thing. It leads to new leadership and new opportunities.

I remember from my father's funeral that the minister kept using a metaphor about life of a prism. And I took that away like a cherished image.

No one can give you freedom but you.

These tanks were like a good rent-a-car.

To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.

The mind that is full of God is empty of anxiety. Are you troubled, restless, sleepless? Then think of God more!

I recognise Santangelo's dad, who saves police brutality for when he gets to his son.

Money itself isn’t lost or made. It’s simply transferred from one perception to another.