Bless me, Father, for I have sinned, it's been a minute since my last confession.

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.

Dream up a book on Monday, publish it on Friday.

I'm not a guru. I wish you wouldn't pose these things at me, man. Ask me about women or something.

True worship comes when we learn to close our eyes and focus only on Him.

If any agreement between two nations is to last, it must serve the best interests of both nations.

I'm willin' for any solution - religious, political. I'm not going to keep offerin' to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. It indicates a weakness on our part.

We need to demonise soda, the way we've demonised cigarettes.

Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child.

Perhaps one never seems so much at ones ease as when one has to play a part.

The spiritual is inclusive. It is the deepest sense of belonging and participation.We all participate in the spiritual at all times, whether we know it or not.