A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

What I have is a malevolent curiosity. That’s what drives my need to write and what probably leads me to look at things a little askew. I do tend to take a different perspective from most people.

I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I’m just trying to create a good one for myself.

When you are young, you cannot imagine being disabled. You imagine you would conquer it somehow. As I’ve got older, I can imagine it; I can see how life narrows in. I feel compassion for my mother now.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Well, we can’t say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it.

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe.

Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

When one has finished building one’s house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way – before one began.

The cautious seldom err.

At the heart of the Irish economy has always been the philosophy of tax competitiveness. On the cranky left, that is very annoying; I can see that.

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

I know I got angels watchin me from the other side.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live.

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men… We are who we are because they were who they were. It’s wise to know where you come from, who called your name.

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.

Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.

Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

I believe in a passion for inclusion.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.

In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself – limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you’re doomed; you’re finished.

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people’s throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.

The possession of anything begins in the mind.

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

It’s useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.