A mother's love is a blessing No matter where you roam. Keep her while you have her, You'll miss her when she's gone -- Angela's Ashes.

You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head.

Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it.

Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale.

I say, Billy, what’s the use in playing croquet when you’re doomed? He says, Frankie, what’s the use of not playing croquet when you’re doomed?

I learned the significance of my own insignificant life.

After a full belly all is poetry.

It's not enough to be American. You always have to be something else, Irish-American, German-American, and you'd wonder how they'd get along if someone hadn't invented the hyphen

The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.

Keep scribbling! Something will happen.

The monk that invented gunpowder did as much to stop war as did all the sermons of his brethren.

Strive to be the best and you may succeed: he may well win the race that runs by himself.

The terminal path may, to distinguish it from internuncial common paths, be called the final common path. The motor nerve to a muscle is a collection of such final common paths.

This book is to be read in bed.

The movies have got more corporate, they're making fewer movies in general, and those they are making are all $200-$300m tent-pole releases that eat up all the oxygen.

As much as everything can seem to be about patterns in your self and others, within the drama of all that, it's really all about knowing.

No people do so much harm as those who go about doing good.

Educational progress is a national concern; education is a private one.

Whatever your grade or position, if you know how and when to speak, and when to remain silent, your chances of real success are proportionately increased.

We kings do develop a certain ability to recognize objects under our noses.