I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.
Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the...
I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my...
A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs...
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...
Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.
Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to...
Geographically Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but...
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...
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...
Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.
Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.
I've had some lovely extraordinary experiences on New Year's Eve.
Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
A year from now you're gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now.
What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?
I know. I'm lazy. But I made myself a New Years resolution that I would write...
Dinner was made for eating not for talking.
To have the kind of year you want to have something has to happen that you...
I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
If you asked me for my New Year Resolution it would be to find out who I am.
I get half a million just to show up at parties. My life is like really...
Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well and talk well but...
I have no way of knowing how people really feel but the vast majority of...
Celebrate what you want to see more of.
If you want an interesting party sometime combine cocktails and a fresh box...
First you take a drink then the drink takes a drink then the drink takes you.
All of us every single year we're a different person. I don't think we're...
Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as...
Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.
Who's a boy gonna talk to if not his mother?
My mother is a walking miracle.
