I've noticed your hostility towards him... I ought to have guessed you were friends.

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.

With sociology one can do anything and call it work

I've often thought that my scruples about stealing books were the only thing that stood in the way of my being a really great scholar.

Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.

You Liberals think that goats are just sheep from broken homes.

Here we have a saying: a good friend is someone who visits you when you are in prison. But a really good friend is someone who comes to hear your lectures.

If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.

English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.

On many American campuses the only qualification for admission was the ability actually to find the campus and then discover a parking space.

Marriage is the most advanced form of warfare in the modern world.

Nice! There's no fun in nice. I'll be myself and you'll all love me for it.

Whatever is scaring you, bring it into the light. It's strength will fade

Christianity teaches that when man sinned, God opted for forgiveness rather than fairness. He opted for grace and mercy rather than justice.

I went further and further back through the centuries to get a sense of perspective but now at least I understand why Irish history evokes such strong passions and emotions.

You can say things in a comedy that you never can say in a drama.

I was born in 1953, so that's the Eisenhower administration.

In many cases a dull proof can be supplemented by a geometric analogue so simple and beautiful that the truth of a theorem is almost seen at a glance.

How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Too bad you got so bogged down in books. You've got the spirit of a warrior.

What am I then, my God? What is my nature? A life varied, multifaceted and truly immense.