...but [I] had sworn on the very day of my demobilization never to be under anyone’s orders for the rest of my life. Somehow I must live by writing.

About this business of being a gentleman: I paid so heavily for the fourteen years of my gentleman’s education that I feel entitled, now and then, to get some sort of return.

Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.

Prayer releases your problems to God.

A word meant something only between people, and life’s meaning, its virtue, had something to do with the depth of the relationships we form.

You never know where life is going to take you. So everything I do, I just take it one day at a time, and it always leads you to the right place.

Beware of the flight of Blessings, For nothing that runs away is returned.

Going back to Ireland involves at least six to seven emotional breakdowns for me per day.

The mass production of distraction is now as much a part of the American way of life as the mass production of automobiles.

They (children) are my teachers. I watch them and I learn. It is important for us to try and be like them and imitate them. They are golden.

If you listen only to those around you, the chances of your dreams coming true are very small.

Well, I was such a huge fan of Amy Sherman-Palladino and of 'Gilmore Girls.'