I think if you're the son or daughter of successful actors and actresses, it's a double pressure. More is expected of you.

Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift.

The cause of making the world a better place for children unites us all.

There's periods now in our New York residence when I hear the door opening, especially the first couple of years... Anytime I hear that door opening I still think I'm gonna hear her.

If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, you become something else entirely.

You are not what you were born, but what you have it in yourself to be.

I believe that UNICEF is the most important branch of the U.N.; they do exceptional work to help the neediest children around the world

Men fear most what they cannot see.

It's extraordinary to look into a baby's face and see a piece of your flesh and your spirit. It makes you realize you are a part of the human race.

I'm a big believer in acts of kindness, no matter how small.

Northern Ireland is the world’s best kept secret, both in the character of its people and its scenery.

Sometimes it also helps to have a bit less pride.

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing it's when you've had everything to do and you've done it.

It is impossible to win gracefully at chess. No man has yet said "Mate!" in a voice which failed to sound to his opponent bitter, boastful and malicious.

A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.

I crossed the street to walk in the sunshine.

You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president

It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.

All experience is good experience.

Do three things each night before you go to bed: read a poem, read a short story, read an essay.

I think I’ve developed this pattern of running away when it comes time to fall in love and stay in a relationship.