“In the life of the individual, an aesthetic sensibility is both more authentic and more commendable than a political or religious one.”

“[T]he more one is conscious of one's political bias, the more chance one has of acting politically without sacrificing one's aesthetic and intellectual integrity.”

“But outside of the North of Ireland there is no religious question, and in the North it is fundamentally more political than religious.”

“That human life is but a first installment of the serial soul and that one's individual secret is not lost in the process of earthly dissolution, becomes something more than an optimistic conjecture, and even more than a matter of religious faith, when we remember that only commonsense rules immortality out.”

“Our learning is a journey, both individually and collectively. But then life too is a journey. A journey where the ride is more important than the destination.”

“The city-state was the means by which the Greek consciously strove to make the life both of the community and of the individual more excellent than it was before.”