She comes from the Midwest. She had me at a very young age and raised me on her own. She's a very hard worker.

And I think women have come a very, very long way, but they have a long way to go.

I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them.

As soon as you get over caring what people think, you can have a nice time.

I spent every day just praying that I didn't look like a big dork on camera.

Sometimes when you're just thrown into something, you are more ready for it than when you have time to think it over and get nervous about it.

I love fast cars... and to go too fast in them.

Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.

I'm afraid of the dark, so I have a lot of night-lights.

I love children and I love men, but I can't commit to either for the rest of my life.

That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way?

Mystery of love is like digging water: everything closes. (Mystère de l'amour est comme - Creuser l'eau : tout se referme)

You don't become the best if you aren't willing to stick your hand in the fire.

I stood with my mom in the cemetery. She felt terrible pain. My grandmother is with God. My mom has to continue living. It’s not so easy, moving forward.

I've gone to school for business, for design, for architecture.

Miracles happen. They have happened to me and they are happening to you. You need only look to the people in your lives in order to see them.

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.

When I was nine, I wrote a vow of celibacy on a piece of paper and ate it.

To the old our mouths are always partly closed; we must swallow our obvious retorts and listen. They sit above our heads, on life's raised dais, and appeal at once to our respect and pity.

I'm a junkie for exhaustion, and I'm a junkie for setting up my expectations too high and then trying to meet them.

I always think a great speaker convinces us not by force of reasoning, but because he is visibly enjoying the beliefs he wants us to accept.