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

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.

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!

There's something terribly weird about the standard fantasy setting--not least of which the fact the phrase "standard fantasy setting" can be uttered without irony.

Love is a Dance set on the stage of Forgiveness and Grace.

The thought of hurting him ripped me apart. Ripped me so totally, that I knew, I cared more for him than I did myself.

In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness.

Syrian people have right to fight for democracy and freedom in their country but they don't need the penetration of foreign elements, fundamentalist ideologies and violence.

I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice.

The essence of leadership is building bonds of trust in your organization.

No religion can be built on force.

I like to be in the zone. I like being in the studio with the artists, with the producers, with the musicians, feeling it, and going there. I feel like I have a lot of content to start writing about.

I teach a non-fiction writing class at New York University, and one of my great pleasures is deciding on the syllabus.