I'm Irish yet I don't drink as I refuse to be a stereotype and live down to the expectations of others.

Faith is blind belief. Atheism is blind disbelief. No one has all the information needed to take up such fixed positions.

Human knowledge is but a ripple on the water's surface. To go deeper, we must accept the fact that we don't know everything

When you choose to look down on something, you render yourself incapable of understanding it.

Ah, sleep, clothe me in thy velvet cloak.

Great leaders lead by example, not by making an example of others.

The only way to ensure democracy functions correctly is to question its governance constantly. Fail to do so and you may awake to find yourself living in a police state.

For even in the pit of darkness, the beacon of humanity can always shine through.

There's nothing man can imagine that nature hasn't already created a zillion times better.

The bravest thing David Bowie ever did was to go on stage after Queen at Live Aid.

Fantasy is a reaction to the constraints of reality.

I thought there would be time, but we always think stuff like that, don't we? We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.

The essence of acquiring knowledge is not just to have it, but to consistently apply it in your day to day life.

This feeling of being in proximity to something that’s lost to you, it seems like my whole life right now.

Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. It makes it feel needed.

Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.

The most common mistakes women make when applying makeup are not applying it in the proper light and not using their hands as blending tools.

Tell me, O muse, of travellers far and wide

Life itself is a school, and Nature always a fresh study.

What it gives any human being a right to - to pick and choose which embryo - which fetus is more valuable than another. That's is not up to human beings.

Fashionably amusing table manners are a matter of breaking the right rule at the right time.