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“I had to think long and hard about what it would imply, what it would mean. Would it mean any alterations of one's lifestyle? Or, more than that, the way that people regarded you? The way they reacted to you if you had a Sir in front of your name?”
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“I'm an Irish-American, and I grew up in an Irish-American neighborhood.”
Source : "William Devane Respects the Text". Interview with Alex Simon, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 12, 2013. 
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“I don't direct the plays of others.”
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“If the cost of figuring out whether to do something is more than just doing it, then just do it!”
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“Whether I scare some people or not, I don't give a hoot. If you're not scared by now, nothing can scare you.”
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“All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake.”
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“Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors, even for patients who have not lost loved ones to death. We are often haunted by important relationships from the past that influence us unconsciously in the present. As we work them through, they go from haunting us to becoming simply part of our history. (243)”
Source : Norman Doidge (2007). “The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science”, p.243, Penguin
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“The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.”
Source : James Allen (1923). “As a Man Thinketh”, p.22, New Line Publishing
