life is long between the desire and the spasm.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.

I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life's supreme complications.

April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

The journey, Not the destination matters.

Harry, you wonderful boy, you brave, brave man.

Ireland is a fatal disease fatal to Englishmen and doubly fatal to Irishmen.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

What do you fear, most of all? The possibility that love may not be enough.

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

In these days of widespread illiteracy, functional illiteracy... anything that keeps people stupid is a felony.

If not against us, nature is not for us.

I want a woman to walk past and say, "I would love to be in a picture with him."

Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time.

Servile labour disappeared because it could not stand the competition of free labour; its un-profitability sealed its doom in the market economy.