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.

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.

I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions.

I grew up about 60 miles northwest of New York, in Middletown, NY.

For me, there was never an end game for becoming a director.

A 'fact' merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

The best kind of giving is thanksgiving.

I wanted him to feel what I felt when I was with him: that incredible combination of comfort, decadence, and wonder; the knowledge that, with just a single taste of him, I was addicted.

I view life as a learning experience. It is not so much all about music; it is about what happens when you are doing the music.

It is time this Congress listened to the American people and minimum-wage workers, and it is time that we act.

Hard disks have disappointed me more than most technologies.

The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights.