If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take.

A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice.

There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either.

I am rather in favour of dealing with teenage hooliganism.

I am not proposing to seek your votes because there is a blue sky ahead today.

Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions.

A leader has to appear consistent. That doesn't mean he has to be consistent.

Unilateral disarmament by Britain is opposed to our country's best interests, could begin the unravelling of NATO and therefore jeopardise the stability of Europe.

I've never been one to say that Britain was joining a happy band of brothers.

You never reach the promised land. You can march towards it

Society today is so organised that every individual group has the power to disrupt it. How is their power to be channelled into constructive channels?

Awww, " Minho said. "That's almost as sweet as that time she slammed the end of a spear into your shuck face.

The hate in heart can consume you not outside events.

The mind reaches great heights only by spurts.

Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.

I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.

There is always room at the top, don't let them tell you there is not.

No more gods, no more faith, no more timid holding back. Let us blast out of our old forms, our ignorance, our weakness, and our mortality. The future belongs to posthumanity.

The most beautiful act of faith is the one made in darkness, in sacrificing, and with extreme effort.

Making a film that's supposed to be fun to watch is really hard - that's the weird irony of it.

Public Speaking is a skill that can be studied, polished, perfected. Not only can you get good at it, you can get damn good at it and it makes a heck of a difference.