I could remember the house on Lexington Street, where the mortgage hung over our heads almost as tangibly as the roof, and we still managed to enjoy life.

An Irish wedding is a tame thing to an Irish funeral.

The Irish are never at peace but when they're fighting.

That's the way it is with influence, you know; if you don't use it all the time, people will forget you have it.

It's undeserved success that people are so terribly afraid of losing; they know they haven't any way, themselves, of ever getting it back again.

It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport.

I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself.

Water and sanitation has not had the same kind of champion that global health, and even education, have had.

I will tell you with 100 percent confidence, Jon Jones is not deep in my head. The fact he actually thinks that, it makes me smile every day.

I hear poets complaining: 'We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and that.'

We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.

The art of making films is a collaborative art. As a composer, you're always working with the cinematographer because he's so much the heart of the world they've created on film.

Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten

Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.