I Do Try To Live Every Day

In Ireland Every Place You Visit And Every Person You Meet Has A Story. And They Love To Tell You Their Stories. Everyone Is Interested In Everything; In A Land Of Storytellers, You Will Never Be Bored.

I Have No Idea Whether What I Write Will Be Of The Remotest Interest To Anyone Else. Some Mornings When I Read What I Wrote The Previous Day I Think It's Fairly Entertaining; Other Times I Think It's Pure Rubbish. The Main Thing Is Not To Take Any Notice, Not To Be Elated Or Upset, Just Keep Going.

She Put Her Head Down On The Table And Cried All The Tears That She Knew She Should Have Cried In The Past Year And A Half. But They Weren't Ready Then, They Were Now.

Success Is Not Like A Cake That Needs To Be Divided. It's More Like A Heap Of Stones - A Cairn. If Someone Is Successful, They Add A Stone To The Cairn. It Gets Very High And Can Be Seen From All Over The World. That's How I See It.

When I Was Younger, I Avoided Exercise Or Anything Strenuous. I Didn't Even Enjoy Walking. As I Got Older, I Spent So Much Time Marking Books Or Sitting At A Desk Writing That There Was No Room For Exercise - Not That I Would Have Bothered Anyway.