That's the Irish all over -- they treat a joke as a serious thing and a serious thing as a joke.

There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction.

Politics - I don't know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from one another, while nature is always and ever making efforts to bring us together.

To me life is simply an invitation to live.

There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.

The whole worl's in a state o' chassis.

I ofen looked up at the sky an' assed meself the question - what is the stars, what is the stars?

I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other.

So let us all who pray ask for what most of them need badly, a sense of humor to lighten their way through life, making it merrier for themselves and easier for others.

The secret to happiness is to find a congenial monotony.

A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other

The more we practice sympathetic joy, the more we come to realize that the happiness we share with others is inseparable from our own happiness.

There is no literature anymore, there are just single books that arrive in bookstores, just as letters, newspapers, advertising pamphlets arrive in mailboxes.

People never grow up, they just learn how to act in public.

I've seen wonderful stay-at-home moms and moms who could use a little improving.

Learning should take place when it is needed, when the learner is interested, not according to some arbitrary, fixed schedule

Nose-to-tail eating is not a bloodlust, testosterone-fueled offal hunt. It's common sense, and it's all good stuff.

I truly believe fishing is like a washing machine for your brain

Unless one can think wisely it is better to remain a dummy.

I was young. I was newly married. And I had worked like a dog. I just wanted to live and travel.

At the end of the day, I'm very convinced that you're going to be judged on how you are as a husband and as a father and not on how many bowl games we won.