I believe that if you treat China as an enemy, then it is likely to become one.

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.

We're all here for a spell

I have learned that God’s silence to my questions is not a door slammed in my face. I may not have the answers—but I do have him.

I feel I lost my innocence to cancer.

Swing is so much more than a dance, it's a way of life. The music gets stuck in your mind and the dance is in your heart and the whole scene is engraved on your soul. You can fly.

You don't make your character in a crisis, you exhibit it.

The business is so driven by money, everyone's trying to get it right.

She never thought she was good at making friends. But maybe she was just trying to be friends with the wrong people.

The descent is often as much (or more of) a challenge as the climb.

I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our forefathers, as Israel of old.

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus and a chair that's not obtained from Craigslist that keeps poking into his back.