We Irish prefer embroideries to plain cloth. To us Irish, memory is a canvas--stretched, primed, and ready for painting on. We love the "story" part of the word "history," and we love it trimmed out with color and drama, ribbons and bows. Listen to our tunes, observe a Celtic scroll: we always decorate our essence.

The human face does not always reflect the beauty that may repose in the soul.

Start with the difficult and when it gets easy, everything else is easier.

Should; shouldn't; ought; oughtn't—the enemies of contentment.

Find your soul and you'll live. Lose your soul and you'll die.

I'd have to struggle to find a subject in which I can't get some kind of interested pulse started.

Do you know what the difference is between Friendship and Love? Friendship is the photograph, Love is the oil painting.