When I came to America, I dreamed bigger dreams.

You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head.

Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it.

Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale.

I say, Billy, what’s the use in playing croquet when you’re doomed? He says, Frankie, what’s the use of not playing croquet when you’re doomed?

I learned the significance of my own insignificant life.

After a full belly all is poetry.

It's not enough to be American. You always have to be something else, Irish-American, German-American, and you'd wonder how they'd get along if someone hadn't invented the hyphen

A mother's love is a blessing No matter where you roam. Keep her while you have her, You'll miss her when she's gone -- Angela's Ashes.

The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.

A terrible plague has either killed mankind or transformed them into demons ... and all they want is Compton's soul.The best place to conceal esoteric information is right in front of us.

No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.

Don't expect to know your husband inside and out within a month of marriage. For a long time you will be making discoveries

Greed:Your own lies make you sick.

I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over.

The most durable monument of human labor is that which recalls the wretchedness and nothingness of man.

Chelsea Manning attempted to commit suicide twice last year.

The shadow past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst.

We're all undesirable elements from somebody's point of view.

The best marketing is education.