... 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.

I'm not good enough to be a saint and not bad enough to be interesting.

Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.

I think my life will always be worth living, though I don't imagine it being very easy.

My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.

But I make a distinction between the doctrines of the Church, which matter, and the structure invented by half a dozen Italians who got to be pope and which is of very little use to anybody.

I went to a very militantly Republican grammar school and, under its influence, began to revolt against the Establishment, on thesimple rule of thumb, highly satisfying to a ten-year-old, that Irish equals good, English equals bad.