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

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.

All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.

The forest restoration campaign is a war to ameliorate nature.

Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.

Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.

When you're being stalked by an angry mob with raspberries, the first thing to do is to release a tiger.

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach.

If all else fails, there's always print or web zines.

It was impossible to imagine the aloof, dignified, powerful High Lord living as, of all things, a slave.

Put forth thy hand, reach at the glorious gold.