Nature has placed his own happiness in each man's hands, if he only knew how to use it.
It is better to be tied to any thorny bush than to be with a cross man.
There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better words, too.
We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country of the Young along with it.
It's best make changes little by little, the same as you'd put clothes upon a growing child.
It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul.
The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart.
We travel, in essence, to become young fools again - to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.
Absolutely, all guitars are different. You can go into a store and grab five guitars, all the same model, and even though they look identical they're not identical. They play differently, they feel a bit different and they sound slightly different.
Like anything, you don't force kids to cook. It just becomes part of life - have them be around it, keep them informed - talk about it. I try to relay my passion for it in these ways. The second you try to force anything on your own kid, they rebel.
For each show, we do maybe 15 versions before it goes on air. So I know every show microscopically.