I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.

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

—William Butler Yeats

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

—William Butler Yeats

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

—William Butler Yeats

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

—William Butler Yeats

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

—William Butler Yeats

The constant free flow of communication amount us-enabling the free interchange of ideas-forms the very bloodstream of our nation. It keeps the mind and body of our democracy eternally vital, eternally young.

—Judith Martin

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

—T. S. Eliot

It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English—up to fifty words used in correct context—no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.

—Carl Sagan

You missed me? Five months you don't say one word to me. Not a text, not an email, nothing. That doesn't sound like you missed me.

—Leia Shaw in Boy Meets Nerd