We are always making God our accomplice so that we may legalize our own inequities.

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it.

Giving birth was easier than having a tattoo.

I was heading to Nebraska. Now there's a sentence you don't want to say too often if you can possibly help it.

Maybe my caveman ancestors invented the wheel or something. I'm not sure.

There's something about the Irish that is remarkable.

The worst thing you can do for love is deny it; so when you find that special someone, don't let anyone or anything to get in your way.

There's nothing there — get rid of that!

A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

Ulster will fight, and Ulster will be right

I'm not interested in corporate magic or fame.