A good man giving bad advice is more dangerous than a nasty man giving bad advice.

In the last century the Arab thinker Jamal al-Afghani wrote: 'Every Muslim is sick and his only remedy is in the Koran.' Unfortunately the sickness gets worse the more the remedy is taken.

You are not an agnostic.....You are just a fat slob who is too lazy to go to Mass.

Irishness is not primarily a question of birth or blood or language; it is the condition of being involved in the Irish situation, and usually of being mauled by it.

Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.

Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.

Nothing does more to activate Christian divisions than talk about Christian unity.

You can safely appeal to the UN in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.

The sea which we think of separating the two island actually joins them.

We are ancients of the earth, And in the morning of the times.

That man's the best cosmopolite Who loves his native country best.

Why should the cotton growers suffer if there is shortage of wheat?

American greatness was elevated significantly after Sputnik.

A friend whose hopes we cannot satisfy is a friend we would rather have as an enemy.

If a waiter or waitress tells me when gratuity is included they automatically get more gratuity. When they hide it I go with the leg kick.

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.

Marriage is a land mine. A really intimate land mine. Adultery to kitchen fires. Never a dull [moment].

I think the whole of music comes down to one's personality. It's not about the notes or how you press the keys; it's where you are in your evolution of consciousness.

There are lots of things that I'm always pulling inspiration from.