Before the arrival of the Credit Union, people who were from the poor background or a working class background couldn't borrow from banks.

My father was unemployed and I was the eldest of seven children. We were very poor. And when you ask how did we support ourselves, the only funding that we had was unemployment payments.

I never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought very simply in terms of helping people.

In my opinion, what changed the situation eventually - and, of course, it took a lot of time to change it, things like that don't change in a week or a fortnight - was the new educational system.

The basis of peace and stability, in any society, has to be the fullest respect for the human rights of all its people.

If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless.

Total ghettoization, because they were in charge of public housing, the local council, and they deliberately located people in a ghetto situation in order to ensure that they maintained control.

All conflict is about difference; whether the difference is race religion, or nationality.

Difference is of the essence of humanity.

I was grateful for the opportunity to make a difference. The political violence really started in 1970-1971. The political difficulties start a little bit beyond that.

They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put them out. My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date.

Sometimes the anger directed at another is actually anger toward the self.

The miracle of life is self-confidence.

What we think affects our life so much that life is for each of us just what we think it is. So the question of what life means has individual answers for each of us.

No symphony orchestra ever played music like a two-year-old girl laughing with a puppy.

The goal isn't to be perfect, but to be authentic!

The rebels will be thinking about retaliation, what we have to do is stop; stop and transform it into a spiral of forgiveness and reconciliation.

Men despise one another and flatter one another; and men wish to raise themselves above one another, and crouch before one another.

I just stick my tongue out because I hate smiling in pictures.

To become the enemy, see yourself as the enemy of the enemy

Work is like the rest of life. The best parts are free.