Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks' Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely.

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

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.

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

If you think someone is humble, never tell them so. You will unknowingly rob them of the very thing you admire.

Love me love my dog.

A wet boy has a deader, an assassin has a target, because assassins sometimes miss.

One must strike the right balance between speed and quality.

People think they know the mystery of living in your skin. They don't. There's no one who knows except the person who carts it around her own self.

The corruption in Iraq has nothing to do with ideas - it has to do with the regime and institutional structures and power.

I'd rather be one of the devotees of God than one of the straight, so-called sane or normal people who just don't understand that man is a spiritual being, that he has a soul.

I practice on the roads of Gaza as we don't have good stadiums and tracks so I gave my best.

For a photographer, the first 70 years are a bit difficult, but after that things get better.

I have never been able to understand why pigeon-shooting at Hurlingham should be refined and polite, while a rat-killing match in Whitechapel is low.