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

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

There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents-if the term is to be used at all.

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

To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else

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.