If I felt we had alienated the Unionists, it would worry me because we've spent a great deal of time trying to open up discussion and dialogue with the Unionist Parties.

It... is the best opportunity we've had in the last 25 years to bring about a settlement in Northern Ireland, and I think we should leave no stone unturned to achieve that.

The British Government and the Irish Government have accepted very clearly the Mitchell Report.

We are looking for a Wealth Tax that will bring in sufficient revenue to justify having a wealth tax.

Heath Ledger died from the joker, so far the darkness killed him... but why we don't explore it?

We know what we are, but not what we may be.

If you're afraid to smile, you're afraid of life.

People will typically be more enthusiastic where they feel a sense of belonging and see themselves as part of a community than they will in a workplace in which each person is left to his own devices

What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation.

High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship.

Fear can come across in absence of sharp corners, locked windows in hotel rooms, locks, passwords, security...fairytales (the type of storylines)...in fact everywhere.

All great companies have spirit and culture. Mean spirited returns mean spirit.

I brought a lot of the codification of womenswear to menswear. Why? Because when I was a child, I was wearing women's clothes adjusted to me.

In a world of free, everyone can play.