The word is a sound of some sort and that's where the energy comes from.

Conservatism is not a political ideology, it is a severe form of brain damage for which there's hardly any cure.

Being a kid myself, I loved playing and I loved playing with words, and making up things and riddles and songs and not afraid of being silly in public.

Democracy to me is letting the other person speak and being dissenting without being disagreeable.

I've avoided work all my life, you see. So, I'm like a bee. I go from flower to flower.

It's one day at a time, that's all there is to it, and so I don't have to worry about it. All I do is, okay, I do not have to drink. And if I feel like it, I postpone it for ten minutes, and that way I find something else to do in the meantime.

When an English man speaks well, for example now, and this is another way of putting us down, they say he's "eloquent" you see. "Oh, eloquent chap they are!" An Irish person speak well, they say, "Ah, you have the gift of the gab." "Ah, you kissed the blarney stone." You see, all of this putting us down.