Life is like a roller coaster, live it, be happy, enjoy life.

I was eating bad stuff. Lots of sugar and carbs, junk food all the time. It makes you very irritated.

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

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

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

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

Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.

In dreams begins responsibility.

Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.

The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.

Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.

Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.

There couldn't be better parents than mine, loving yet strict. They disciplined with love. A child without discipline is, in away, a lost child. You cannot have freedom without discipline.

Being the only non-Black was a unique experience. After a few weeks, you're not aware of skin color differences. You see the color; you're not blind, but it doesn't matter. You see the human being first.

I found enormous opposition to my religion. It's like if you want to strengthen your biceps, you lift heavy weight, as heavy as you can handle, and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion.

Because we should always respect other nationalities, I have always tried to play them with dignity.

True love doesn't happen right away; it's an ever-growing process. It develops after you've gone through many ups and downs, when you've suffered together, cried together, laughed together.

Politics is too partisan, and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it's all about what's good for the party and not necessarily what's good for the country.

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Great hopes make great men.

A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.

One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

Health is not valued till sickness comes.

'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.

Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

In fair weather prepare for foul.