I can't go too much into my domestic life because there are ex-wives ready to do me in.

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.

You were born beautiful, and you remain beautiful.

I know more Australian people than I know New Zealand persons. I feel like there's a real gap in my education.

We like the wrong sorts of girls, they wrote. They are usually the ones worth writing about.

Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death.

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

Forgive yourself. Forgive others. Don't wait.

Maybe, just maybe, two broken people could manage to create something whole.

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.

As we grow older, the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated of dead and living.

A diamond, which is the hardest of stones, not yielding unto steel, emery or any other thing, is yet made soft by the blood of a goat.