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

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

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.

One American said that the most interesting thing about Holy Ireland was that its people hate each other in the name of Jesus Christ. And they do!

I am Sama Veda among the Vedas

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

She wants to be polite and not hurt your feelings, so she's not going to laugh right now. But inside, inside she's laughing.

I'd love to see us get to a point where you can make a movie and not worry about the limits of the violence. Then I think they'd get so violent that people would get bored of it.

Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.

When leaders lead in ways that people's brains can follow, good results follow as well.

I think my most beautiful smile or laugh emerges when I'm happy.

The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it for a slavish submission to any power but reason.

You can't deny reality just because you can't explain it.

The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax.