Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest to fool.

Richard Feynman

I love very much to draw animals.

Josef Albers

The private and serious drama of guilt is not often a useful one for fiction today and its disappearance, following perhaps the disappearance from life, appears as a natural, almost unnoticed relief, like some of the challenging illnesses wiped out by drug and vaccines.

Elizabeth Hardwick

I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation

Mike Todd

To get the whole world out of bedAnd washed, and dressed, and warmed, and fed,To work, and back to bed again,Believe me, Saul, costs worlds of pain.

John Edward Masefield, The Everl

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.

Frank McCourt

The pursuit of truth will set you free even if you never catch up with it.

Clarence Darrow

When I'm online, I'm alone in a room, tapping on a keyboard, staring at a cathode-ray tube.

Clifford Stoll

Life is so unfair that one is more likely to get into some sort of trouble than be rewarded if one attempts to do a good deed; many times one spends time and resources to help someone only to be totally ignored with not so much as a thank you.

John P. Grier

We know what we are, but know now what we may be.

William Shakespeare

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson