Damn it all, MacMurrough, are you telling me you are an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort?’‘If you mean am I Irish, the answer is yes.

They do say money is the root of all evil."I thought that was supposed to be the love of money."There's neat for you. 'Tis them without it that loves it best.

My black-headed black-eyed boy. I remember every day of you. How would I forget?

1 Give to the world the best you have I and the best will come back to you.

Negative emotions like hatred destroy our peace of mind.

You want your kids to feel happy and good about themselves. The rest they'll work out on their own. You never know what your kids will be drawn to.

I mean, who wants to trudge through life, doing everything just right? Taking no chances means wasting your dreams.

In trying to defend everything he defended nothing.

Enthusiasm is the electricity of life

My father builds homes. So I grew up around the idea that you can take a piece of land, and you can bulldozer it and build new homes on it. You can create something new.

I don't know exactly what covetous is, but in my experience it is not so much desiring someone else's virtue or happiness as rejecting it, taking offense at the beauty of it.

It [1991 Federal budget] contains almost 190,000 accounts. At a rate of one per minute, eight hours a day, it would take over a year to reflect upon these!