I don't believe in happiness anyway... it's too much of an American pastime, this search for happiness. Just forget happiness and enjoy your misery.

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.

Immaterial as water, too vast for any mortal apprehension, the Web's outstanding qualities allow us to confuse the ungraspable with the eternal.

God bless us every one.

I will both lay me down in peace and sleep: for thou Lord only makest me dwell in safety.

I've often said there's two kinds of actors. There's a more gregarious type and the shy type.

The trouble with New Age music is that there's no evil in it.

The tragedy is that, as modern viewers, we've completely lost touch with what it physically takes to wage a war.

Your parents leave you too soon and your kids and spouse come along late, but your siblings know you when you are in your most inchoate form.

There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.

Be smart, but never show it.

I learned so many roles so quickly as a young singer, I thought it was time to come back to them and make them better - deeper, more nuanced.