A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.

The body is the outermost layer of the mind.

Dreams are shores where the ocean of spirit meets the land of matter. Dreams are beaches where the yet-to-be, the once-were, the will-never-be may walk awhile with the still are.

Our ancestors built temples for their gods. We build department stores.

This is my moral. Trust what you dream. Not what you think.

When you win, the rules change, and you find you’ve lost

A single night is stuffed with minutes, but they leak out, one by one.

Young mothers are the most vicious tribe in the world if you don't fit in.

Politicians and sports coaches both need to be smart enough to master the game, but dumb enough to think it matters.

She has man's brain--a brain that a man should have were he much gifted--and woman's heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination.

Do you know what it's like to be blessed with someone so special, to love them so much it hurts, and then have them taken from you forever?

Look: each moment is a cradle and a casket: may all life and all death seem strange to you.

A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple.

Perhaps history is a thing that would stop happening if God held His breath, or could be imagined as turning away to think of something else.

A fluent writer always seems more talented than he is. To write well, one needs a natural felicity and an acquired difficulty.

This is a mind over matter thing. We have to find it within ourselves to play for two hours. We love the game, so it's not like we're doing something we hate. We're doing something we love.

I like to play a wide range of characters. The more they're unlike me, the better I like it.

We may have bad weather in Ireland, but the sun shines in the hearts of the people and that keeps us all warm.

People put on certain clothes for certain reasons, I assume, when their closet is filled with clothes.