After a full belly all is poetry.

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.

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.

Keep scribbling! Something will happen.

In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.

God is the source of life. Life without God is hopeless. But life with God is an endless hope

My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.

Some people think they know who you are, when really they don't.

Always think that in any area of the arts, you get maybe ten percent of people who are creative, original... and the rest are generally following on, copying.

I hope this brings someone else the courage they need to face whatever challenge is before them.

I shall despair when I despair of myself, of God and humanity.

Crisis moments create opportunity. Problems and crises ignite our greatest creativity and thought leadership as it forces us to focus on things outside the norm.

In Iowa, we take care of people. That's all I think I need to say.

All truths wait in all things,/They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it