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.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.

Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.

Quality is everyone's responsibility.

It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.

You can observe a lot just by watching.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing.

In fair weather prepare for foul.

After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.

I wake up laughing. Yes, I wake up in the morning and there I am just laughing my head off.

Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.

And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death.

Have faith in God; God has faith in you.

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

I've spent a lot of Thanksgivings on the road with my band, so anytime that I can spend Thanksgiving with my family in a traditional aspect, eating sweet potatoes and cranberries and stuffing and all the trappings of Thanksgiving and then get on a treadmill the next day extra long, I'm happy.