All the way through, we have been willing to take risks, provided at the end of it we can get a decent lasting settlement in Northern Ireland

The kaleidoscope has been shaken. The pieces are in flux. Soon they will settle again. Before they do, let us re-order this world around us.

The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

I want my son to grow up in a place where the people are more powerful than the government and not the other way around.

There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must.

Global warming is too serious for the world any longer to ignore its danger or split into opposing factions on it.

A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in.. And how many want out.

Politics is about listening and it's about leading.

I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.

One of the paradoxes of globalization is that, in the developing world, we've seen massive reductions in property.

The emphasis placed by more and more companies on corporate social responsibility, symbolises the recognition that prosperity is best achieved in an inclusive society.

Service and gratitude will fuel your relationship

The world won't be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.

A country where a devil is sitting at the throne turns into a real hell!

Painting calmed the chaos that shook my soul.

Optimism is the cheerful frame of mind that enables a teakettle to sing, though in hot water up to its nose.

We decided to start our own group because we were bored with everything we heard... Everything was 10th-generation Led Zeppelin... Overproduced, or just junk. We missed music like it used to be.

The allegedly 'classy' magazines often seem to be in an endless, undeclared competition to see who can climb furthest up the fundament of Gwyneth Paltrow or Jennifer Lopez.

There's been periods of broadcasts in the past where you could see all ages of entertainers, ranging from George Burns to Shirley Temple. That's not the condition now.

. . . among all grammars meeting this condition (of adequacy), we select the simplest.

My own daughters weren't able to study in Turkey because of their headscarves, so they went to the United States.