It's only the dead who'll tell you the truth.

There's no sense to being Irish unless you know the world's going to break your heart.

Life in New York is a constant struggle to die of natural causes.

Indulgences should never be hesitant.

The trouble with hope is that it only pays off when there's some sense in back of it.

So few women have any clear idea of the power their ordinary beauty holds over so many of us men.

Things you plan in life usually turn out to be meaningless, things you accumulate without knowing it become your real treasure.

If everyone fights with the power of their love, there will be happiness, not the destruction or war.

It is a violation of trust to use your kids as caulking for the cracks in you.

The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one's humdrum life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness, into one of art, full of genuine inner creativity.

We talk a great deal about Russia today, and I'm afraid that in twenty years, we and Russia will be more similar than different.

The difference between a good leader and a great leader is humility.

I do an awful lot of scuba diving. I love to be on the ocean, under the ocean. I live next to the ocean.

Researches at Yale found a connection between brain cancer and work environment. The No. 1 most dangerous job for developing brain cancer? Plutonium hat model.

We are here to learn and to make our dreams realized.

The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one.

Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments - a republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared.