You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

The poverty and the influence of the church were very damaging. It damaged all of us emotionally. To be poor deprives you of self-esteem.

O'Casey was writing about people in the streets and his mother and dying babies and poverty. So that astounded me because I thought you could only write about English matters.

I loved thee beautiful and kind, and plighted an eternal vow; so altered are thy face and mind, 'Twere perjury to love thee now

The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind.

If ever you are to be visited by the Holy Ghost, you should make certain you're sitting beside a fireman.