I was reared a Catholic but I think every day we ask ourselves, not consciously, what are we doing on this planet? What's it all about?

Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift.

The cause of making the world a better place for children unites us all.

There's periods now in our New York residence when I hear the door opening, especially the first couple of years... Anytime I hear that door opening I still think I'm gonna hear her.

If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, you become something else entirely.

You are not what you were born, but what you have it in yourself to be.

I believe that UNICEF is the most important branch of the U.N.; they do exceptional work to help the neediest children around the world

Men fear most what they cannot see.

It's extraordinary to look into a baby's face and see a piece of your flesh and your spirit. It makes you realize you are a part of the human race.

I'm a big believer in acts of kindness, no matter how small.

Northern Ireland is the world’s best kept secret, both in the character of its people and its scenery.

The things that had changed seem out of place, and the things that had remained the same made Charlie feel out of place.

Love and intuition are both the language of the soul. Speak soul.

You ought to the read stories of how people have endured the worst situation. You will find the strength to survive life.

We all want a world without war, without conflict, without human suffering.

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

Somehow, the love of the islands, like the love of a woman, just happens. One cannot determine in advance to love a particular woman, nor can one so determine to love Hawaii.

I truly believe anything is possible if you fully manifest it.

I dislike PASSION FLOWER HOTEL so much I wish I had the money to buy it up and burn it.

All I know is reception; I am and I have: but I do not get, and when I fancied I had gotten anything, I found I did not.

…[Thomas Wolfe] says that we are the sum of all the moments of our lives, and that, uh, anybody who sits down to write is gonna use the clay of their own life, that you can’t avoid that.