Your mind is a treasure house that you should stock well and it's the one part of you the world can't interfere with.

- Frank Mccourt

When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your w…

- Frank Mccourt

Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it.

- Frank Mccourt

I learned the significance of my own insignificant life.

- Frank Mccourt

It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head.

- Frank Mccourt

I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down. So now I just have nothing but contempt for the…

- Frank Mccourt

Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale.

- Frank Mccourt

I don't believe in happiness anyway... it's too much of an American pastime, this search for happiness. Just forget happiness and enjoy your misery.

- Frank Mccourt

They can afford to smile because they all have teeth so dazzling if they dropped them in the snow they'd be lost forever.

- Frank Mccourt