Though outer events may be difficult, the key to our happiness is how our mind responds to them.
The population of America is roughly 300 million and there are 300 million guns in this country, which is terrifying.
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.
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.
Every time I see Anthony Hopkins I think that, to some extent, he has just been getting away with it all these years.
Men fear most what they cannot see.
But I was very, very lucky, and it was a wake up call as far as motorbikes are concerned. I never flirted with death on the bike, but now I'm totally convinced they're death machines.
It is a great comfort to a rambling people to know that somewhere there is a permanent home--perhaps it is the most final of the comforts they ever really know.
Science fiction is really a rather tiny business compared with its giant cousin, which is fantasy.
I'm one of those people you hate because of genetics. It's the truth.
When you work with your hands, you learn to appreciate how easy it is to earn money talking.