Quote of the day
A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.
Michael D. Higgins
Born: April 18, 1941 (age 84)
Bio: Michael Daniel Higgins is the ninth and current President of Ireland, in office since 11 November 2011.
Known for:
- Renewing the Republic (2012)
- An Arid Season: New Poems (2004)
- When Ideas Matter (2016)
- The Betrayal: Poems (1990)
- New and Selected Poems (2011)







