I'm just an Irish biddy.

Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could all be a little more gentle with each other, and a little more loving, have a little more empathy, and maybe we'd like each other a little bit more.

Birds fly over the rainbow. Why then, oh, why can't I?

Behind every cloud is another cloud.

The greatest treasures are those invisible to the eye but found by the heart.

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

I've always taken 'The Wizard of Oz' very seriously, you know. I believe in the idea of the rainbow. And I've spent my entire life trying to get over it.

Isn’t it tragic that sometimes it takes grief to understand what we have held so dear?

I had a lot of other ideas, now and then, but every time I took a second look at one, it got sick and died.

I have been quiet today because fear in my heart has been fighting with frustration in my brain, leaving little energy for my mouth.

I love Nigerians because they are extra ordinary people they make impossible to be possible.

Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.

No matter how many times you have failed you must keep going forward. Only when you have become humble will you begin to grasp the meaning of life.

Drawing a funny animal, you don't need a lot of detail to make it work. But to draw a sexy girl, there's certain things you can't leave out.

Workers are actually being starved on the largest military base in Baghdad, and women are being raped with impunity - and because it doesn't fit into a Hollywood context it's not going to fly.

And I closed my eyes because I wanted to know nothing but her arms.

A secret needs two faces to bounce between; a secret needs to see itself in another pair of eyes.