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

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

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.

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

Should an anthropologist or a sociologist be looking for a bizarre society to study, I would suggest he come to Ulster. It is one of Europe's oddest countries. Here, in the middle of the twentieth century, with modern technology transforming everybody's lives, you find a medieval mentality that is being dragged painfully into the eighteenth century by some forward-looking people.

It wasn't long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament.

Irish Catholics are more interested in the rosary beads than in the rosary.