It is not a matter of ends justifying means: but of the creation of new means and new ends.

I feel these days like a very large flamingo. No matter what way I turn, there is always a very large bill.

If you do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got. If what you are doing is not working, do something else.

Politics' the polite word for antediluvian prejudices, the rags put on by enmity and tribal resentment.

Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name.

Everything is in the way the material is composed.

The Christ of Bethlehem is the Christ of Galilee, is the Christ of the Crucifixion, is the Christ of the Resurrection, is the Christ of the Eucharist

Beliefs: Those things we hold to be true despite evidence to the contrary.

Dublin was turning into Disneyland with super-pubs, a Purgatory open till five in the morning.

(The short story) is a form that has all the power of the novel - some would say more - but none of the self-importance.

Are we to have a church in which everyone's judgment is equal to everyone else's? That's not a church, it's chaos. Common sense dictates that you keep the fox out of the chicken coop.

Thinking is itself, however, an adventure.

Sweet and low sweet and low Wind of the western sea Low low breathe and blow Wind of the western sea!

There's something I love about how stark the contrast is between January and June in Sweden.

Ebola is not just a health crisis. Across West Africa, a generation of young people risks being lost to an economic catastrophe.

"If you look at the river in that fashion you will be likely to bathe in it soon," cried Rozier. "Some fire, my dear friend, some fire!"

Best to start at the bottom & gradually climb up. It's much more fun, too.

They always say they didn't. I never heard of one who said, 'You know, I deserve this.' Never happens.

Know that the philosopher has power over the stars, and not the stars over him.

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

But Italy can only have any real influence on world affairs if it carries weight in Europe.