That's what kept us going - a sense of absurdity, rather than humor.

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.

Give me a few minutes, " he said, sounding tired but happy, "before I make good on my promises."She circled his nipple with her finger. "That's a pretty short recovery time.""You inspire me.

How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination?

People will respect what wrestling has to offer to this world. It will take educating themselves on more than just guys in there swinging for the fences.

Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.

We oppose and abhor the damnable practice of wholesale abortion and every other unholy and impure act which strikes at the very foundation of the home and family, our most basic institutions.

I could have been better. That's my goal now, to be better.

A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.

Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive.

Sometimes it takes a guide from outside the place you know too well to remind you why you are here.

No one goes through life with a whole heart.