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.

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.

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!

Indeed, the human mind appeared to suffer from a crippling need to fabricate in the absence of concrete proof.

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know.

The gospel of Jesus Christ is the brightest light and the only hope for this darkened world.

I'm a bit of a P. T. Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.

That’s why; he’s worried about how his life is turning out, and he’s lonely, and lonely people are the bitterest of them all

I myself have benefited from many mentors throughout my life.

It is the care of a very great part of mankind to conceal their indigence from the rest. They support themselves by temporary expedients, and every day is lost in contriving for to-morrow.

I wish I could find an event that meant as much as simple seeing.

You can get better, or you can get all gooey, and crotchety, old, pathetic, icky, gross. Not me. Not into it.

Can a nation remain healthy, can all nations draw together in a world whose brightest stars are film stars?