This school was on top of a hill so that God could see everything that went on. It looked like a cross between a prison and a church and it was.

When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?

When coming to the end of an interview: 'You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality'.

Don't do housework: after a few years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.

For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.