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

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.

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.

Every cliche about kids is true; they grow up so quickly, you blink and they're gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that's a joy.

The fact that you are even here, alive, on this planet is a mathematical miracle, and you should not spend the time that you have being busy being miserable.

Today I am a lens, a pen, a gun."--p. 1 ...Before My Eyes...look for it on 2.11.14

No nation can truly develop unless fanaticism, primitive superstitions and metaphysical non-sense are eradicated.

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.

Training was one thing, reality another.

I come from a world where accountability and accomplishments matter, and where titles and rhetoric take a back seat to results.

The family is the scene of the most intimate and powerful of human experiences. Family situations are bloodier and more passionate than any others, and the costs are greater.

I didn't feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened to be borrowing.

One who ”knows,” knows there is no need to discourse; knowing is enough

Happiness is all about milking the "sacred now".