I think there's something about the Irish experience - that we had to have a sense of humor or die.

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.

Rigid traditions capture soulsprisons of spiritual thoughtman’s religion has captured a god grown too small and very weak.

Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others but then they return with their richer lading at last so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.

I'd love to do a costume drama movie. For no other reason, except that it sounds fun to me.

laugh a lot. It burns a lot of calories.

I don't want to pursue someone at all - I want someone to pursue me.

I believe most Americans want their next President to remind them of the guy they work with, not the guy who laid them off.

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

The practice of 'asanas' and 'pranayama' wards off disease and helps to maintain alertness.

My upbringing did not create a healthy affection for confrontation. I'd love it if everyone always got along, and nothing ever got tense.