I ofen looked up at the sky an' assed meself the question - what is the stars, what is the stars?

That's the Irish all over -- they treat a joke as a serious thing and a serious thing as a joke.

There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction.

Politics - I don't know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from one another, while nature is always and ever making efforts to bring us together.

To me life is simply an invitation to live.

There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.

The whole worl's in a state o' chassis.

I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other.

So let us all who pray ask for what most of them need badly, a sense of humor to lighten their way through life, making it merrier for themselves and easier for others.

The secret to happiness is to find a congenial monotony.

A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other

Happiness is not the absence of problems

An ‘usband should be plain enough to sit at his settle, and simple-minded enough to accept the stew on his plate, rather than looking round ev’ry corner for a more succulent chop, ’ declares Elsie.

I reinvented myself. I acquired a taste for evil. I found I have a talent for it. And I murdered the old me.

In success be moderate. Humility makes great men twice honourable.

The roughest road often leads to the top.

Faith in God is less apt to proceed from miracles than miracles from faith in God.

Being a hero doesn't mean you succeed in saving the day. It just means you tried.

Before I had children, I was - everything about my life was devoted to "Saturday Night Live."

Despite our sins, we can say with Peter: Lord, you know everything, you know that I love you.

A man without justice is a beast, and a man who would make himself a beast forgets the pain of being a man.