The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.

Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.

There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.

And by endlessly sanitizing our feelings, we actually feed a disgruntled nation.

The energy released by it is enormous and it becomes quite addictive, the power between the audience and the actor.

The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns.

I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.

I certainly had no intention of playing a man.

I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity.

Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.

Once you've done one style, you leave it for a while.

If Heaven was a summer sky and a TV left on mute, then the Underworld was a starry night and an electric guitar with amps.

I still love the sound of breaking, the tearing of the page

there are people all over the world who carry the mermaid inside them, that otherworldly beauty and longing and desire that made her reach for heaven when she lived in the darkness of the sea.

The great law of culture: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

May posterity show mercy when it look back upon the work we do today. We did what we could with what we had.

The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God's power spills over into other areas of our life.

Dad, I left my heart up there.

When something makes no sense, sometimes you make something of it. A joke. A spiritual practice. A life.

A Oneness of all. An evolution in consciousness of us all that isn't about the egos.

If it is not beautiful for someone, it does not exist.