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

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.

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.

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

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 My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

You know, he said, our work is difficult: we confrontmuch sorrow and disappointment.He gazed at me with increasing frankness.I was like you once, he added, in love with turbulence.

There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.

The force of union conquers all.

We need to find three Saudi Arabias just to offset [the] decline.

What is hope? Hope is wishing for a thing to come true; faith is believing that it will come true.

In the society that has replaced the paternalistic society, women are able to develop their independent and social energies much more. That is good.

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

I don't consciously do anything to maintain a unique voice.

Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty.