I think Europe is going in the right direction and we shouldn't be set back.

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.

If you aren't living on the edge you're taking up too much room. Anon.

How did I get to be a grown-up? At times, I find myself still sitting on the hillside, plotting revenge against the adult world.

The soul should be examined in the light of other souls.

* if someone loves a flower, of which just one single blossom grows, in all the millions of stars, it is enough to make him happy just to look at the stars.

"It wasn't the wine," murmured Mr. Snodgrass, in a broken voice. "It was the salmon."

Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.

I could hear you, talking to the daffodils and tulips, whispering to the fairies that lived inside their petals. Each separate flower had a different family inside it.

Ethics is the new competitive environment

Lincoln was not a type. He stands alone - no ancestors, no fellows, no successors.

Japan has joined the sanctions against the Russian Federation. How are we going to further economic relations on a new and much higher basis, at a higher level under the sanctions regime?