I think my life will always be worth living, though I don't imagine it being very easy.

Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.

My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.

... in Northern Ireland, if you don't have basic Christianity, rather than merely religion, all you get out of the experience of living is bitterness.

We were born into an unjust system; we are not prepared to grow old in it.

To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else

Irish Catholics are more interested in the rosary beads than in the rosary.

It wasn't long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament.

There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents-if the term is to be used at all.

I'm not good enough to be a saint and not bad enough to be interesting.

Free love is too expensive.

A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast.

Somebody's boring me I think it's me.

The gospel is so simple that small children can understand it, and it is so profound that studies by the wisest theologians will never exhaust its riches.

People tease me about knowing somehow that Obama would put Clinton into the cabinet, and everybody would talk about a team of rivals.

Literally, I see my writing as transcription - a transcription of what I see, hear, think, live.

It takes 10 hands to score a basket

In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient's mind.

We are as humans essentially products of our hardware - that is an insight that I've taken with me into the trading side.

A smile breeds a smile.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.