If I have a cause, it's the cause of the teacher.

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.

The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed.

Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

I'm sick. I've eaten civilisation and I'm sick.

I think I understand the Constitution a little bit because in 1971 we went off the gold standard under President Nixon into the Federal Reserve notes because we were a worldwide currency.

There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink

Six months ago I had never been to England, and, certainly, I had never sounded the depths of an English heart. I had known the shallows.

I don't think I would change really anything about rap. Rap don't have no limits to it, and I like it like that.

Theres a way about it: tearing people down, but not tearing them apart.

Find out what your passions are and gauge your limit. Because success requires hard work and perseverance and sadly, not everyone has the two.

I am the only candidate for mayor of London with the experience of being a transport minister.