"After playing Ballybunion for the first time, a man would think that the game of golf originated here."

“From the right to know and the duty to inquire flows the obligation to act.”

“I sang in choir as a kid.”

“We do have a Godly heritage in America, but we have been robbed - robbed by the 3 percent.”

“I'm sure I'll also be very attentive to how tension is built and maintained in a story. I think this curiosity is the heart of all my texts, and it's something vital that I also seek in everything I read.”

“A dream acting role would be Matt Damon in the Bourne series. I would love to do something like that!”

“The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim.”

Source : Interview with Jack Schofield, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2002.

“It is clear that there needs to be a closer working relationship between the United States and India. How can we have a close relationship if decision-makers in Washington know very little, if anything, about the religious beliefs, values, and practices of India's 800 million Hindus?”

Source : "Tulsi Gabbard, Hawaii Democrat, Poised To Be Elected First Hindu In Congress" by Omar Sacirbey, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 2, 2012.

“Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so?”

Source : Karl Barth (1971). “Fragments grave and gay”, Not Avail