Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.

My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.

There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.

A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.

That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way?

Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.

Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.

Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep.

Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me.

If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

I like to go to parties where I know everyone. How are you going to have fun with people you don't know?

Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.