Few politicians are good at taking the high ground and throwing themselves off it.

They want to derail peace because they want to plunge Northern Ireland back into armed conflict.

I'm a fighter, not a quitter.

We are intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich.

We've got to demonstrate why European unity and integration, our vast single market, our single currency, equip us with the strength to embrace globalization.

I'm optimistic that we are actually seeing the opportunity of a generation being created in this.

I do not share the half-in, half-out attitude to the EU of some in Britain. Britain's place is in Europe.

Essentially we need a new social consensus for economic reform as New Labour has achieved in Britain.

The markets don't like instability and they don't like uncertainty.

Europe has to address people's needs directly and reflect their priorities, not our own preoccupations.

Firstly, people take for granted that the E.U. has created the biggest economic space in the world.

Beliefs will nourish or poison depending on their compatibility with reality.

WE NEED MORE OF THOSE AND IF YOU STILL HATE THE WORD, IT IS NOT THE WORD THAT IS IMPORTANT. IT'S THE IDEA AND THE AMBITION BEHIND IT.

Art-making is just another part of the consciousness industry.

The primordial purity of the ground completely transcends words, concepts, and formulations.

Keep your enemies at a distance, your partners close at hand.

Cartoonist Walt Disney has made the twentieth century's only important contribution to music. Disney has made use of music as language.

Love has a hem to her garment that reaches to the very dust. It sweeps the stains from the streets and lanes, and because it can, it must.

The race to be a leader is crowded, but the field is wide open for those willing to be servants

The half moon on the bank of the river's devotion. That's the stab wound, born from the killer emotion

I feel very peaceful.