As soon as you get over caring what people think, you can have a nice time.

And I think women have come a very, very long way, but they have a long way to go.

I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them.

I spent every day just praying that I didn't look like a big dork on camera.

Sometimes when you're just thrown into something, you are more ready for it than when you have time to think it over and get nervous about it.

I love fast cars... and to go too fast in them.

She comes from the Midwest. She had me at a very young age and raised me on her own. She's a very hard worker.

Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.

I'm afraid of the dark, so I have a lot of night-lights.

I love children and I love men, but I can't commit to either for the rest of my life.

That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way?

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

And for all his life it would be kindness and love that made him cry, never pain or persecution, which on the contrary only reinforced his spirit and his resolution.

We Masons are among the fortunate ones who are taught to meet together with others opposing convictions or competitive ideas and yet respect each other as Brothers.

It's hard to reach [the age of] 100. We're not programmed for longevity. We are programmed for something called procreative success.

As the moths around a taper, As the bees around a rose, As the gnats around a vapour, So the spirits group and close Round about a holy childhood, as if drinking its repose.

I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.

If it's a broken part, replace it. If it's a broken arm then brace it. If it's a broken heart, then face it.

I really wish we could stay longer in the countries we visit, but I've been lucky to have visited most of them before, because I've done a tremendous amount of travel.

An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of happiness.

I guess I didn't enjoy drawing very much. It was like homework.