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

Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.

And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.

Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.

We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.

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

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

From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.

And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.

I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.

Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.

Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is, A child’s laughter, a woman’s kiss.

All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.

Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.

It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.

The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.

God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.

When values, thoughts, feelings, and actions are in alignment, a person becomes focused and character is strengthened.

You gonna do somethin’? or are you just gonna stand there and bleed?

I wish is code for I don’t want to do anything differently.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

Forgiveness is a complex concept. We must understand it thoroughly to be able to internalize it.

I’m not a person who defends myself very often. I kind of let my actions speak for me.

Do not let your deeds believe your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, “Why do you not practice what you preach?

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.