"I was brought up to believe that cricket is the most important activity in men's lives, the most important thread in the fabric of the cosmos."

"At this late date in the post-Christian Era, it might be questioned whether the Bible should even be brought into an ethical discussion. I argue that it should. Many people who do not explicitly call …"

"For us to simply sit at the same table, sit down to discuss issues, is already not an easy thing."

"Above all, most Irish nationalists entertain the fiction of Irish exceptionalism, the false conviction that Ireland suffered more under British colonialism than any other comparable people. Let me be …"

"The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes we had brought from the wilds of America. They observed that we talked loudly at table sometimes. T…"