...Venice has been the living future of contemporary American history since its inception.

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.

A weed is but an unloved flower.

Just as with the man in the fairy tale who turned whatever he touched into gold, with me everything is turned into newspaper clamor.

When black America is on the move, America is on the move.

I choose this story above all others because it's a story I'm struggling to end.

And that, Annette, is called Pilates

If you can make it sound exciting with a joke drum machine, you know you've got something.

I do not see the E.E.C. [European Economic Community] as a great love affair. It's more like nine middle aged couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope.

Great ideas behave like the Sun. Even in the middle of nowhere, they find people and shine on them!

I thought about running a marathon a long time ago, but I'm just not a runner.

No writer or speaker who ignores the roots of Latin derivatives is secure from egregious error.