Acting with creatures that aren't there is kind like acting with an actor who refuses to come out of his trailer. You still have to go on and do the scene.

Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift.

The cause of making the world a better place for children unites us all.

There's periods now in our New York residence when I hear the door opening, especially the first couple of years... Anytime I hear that door opening I still think I'm gonna hear her.

If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, you become something else entirely.

You are not what you were born, but what you have it in yourself to be.

I believe that UNICEF is the most important branch of the U.N.; they do exceptional work to help the neediest children around the world

Men fear most what they cannot see.

It's extraordinary to look into a baby's face and see a piece of your flesh and your spirit. It makes you realize you are a part of the human race.

I'm a big believer in acts of kindness, no matter how small.

Northern Ireland is the world’s best kept secret, both in the character of its people and its scenery.

...it's not the stories - it's the pain and the joy and the people who stay with you long after the stories are told ...

Urges. Mercy, the urges.

Like a necktie or a bouquet of flowers, an idea was best if one did not fuss with it too much

You have to maintain your principles but have a broader appeal.

I'm on a roller coaster that only goes up," he said. "And it is my privilege and my responsibility to ride all the way up with you," I said.

We cried and sobbed and wept and bled tears. But when we were finished, all we could do was continue living.

Let us remember, so far as we can, that every unpleasant thought is a bad thing literally put into the body.

My goal now is to remember every place I've been, only do things I love, and not say yes when I don't mean it.

The amount of horror one used to hear about in one village could be quite extreme. But one might not have heard about all the other villages' horrors at the same time.

I'm a really big believer in self care. One of the ways I nourish my soul is I eat the way I live my life - joyfully.