If they give me the bloody prize, why can't they say nice things about me?
There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents-if the term is to be used at all.
Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.
. . . 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.
We were born into an unjust system; we are not prepared to grow old in it.
Irish Catholics are more interested in the rosary beads than in the rosary.
To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else
To say that a schlemiel is a luckless person is to touch only the negative side. It is the schlemiel's avocation and profession to miss out on things, to muff opportunities, to be persistently, organically, preposterously and ingeniously out of place. A hungry schlemiel dreams of a plate of hot soup, and hasn't a spoon.
There are the samskaras, the tendencies from your other lifetimes, ways of seeing, habits that are so strong, they affect you now. They are the operative situations in your life that are created by karma.
If the power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end.
We can see the same spirit in everybody only when we know we are that spirit, Atman or Self. Only a person who has understood his own Self can see that Self in everybody.