Where did I get the nerve to think I could handle American teenagers? Ignorance. That's where I got the nerve.

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.

When you stop living for luxuries you understand the real meaning of life.

Who can have compassion on the ignorant is a victim of regrets, a supporter of ignorance and a builder of stupidity.

[Israel] undermines the international community's reaction to global warming.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred.

Playing for England was one long roller-coaster: some ups and downs, but also quite a few moments when you're not really sure if you're enjoying the ride.

A library should be like a pair of open arms.

If you died it would be like my bones had been removed. No one would know why, but I would collapse.

The state of the world, of course, is constantly changing, and so is theory.

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.

The garb of religion is the best cloak for power.