After a full belly all is poetry.

I don't know what it means and I don't care because it's Shakespeare and it's like having jewels in my mouth when I say the words.

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

He says, You have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can't make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. You might be poor , your shoes might be broken , but your mind is a palace.

The happy childhood is hardly worth your while.

After a full belly all is poetry.

I can't go back. The past won't go away in this family.