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.

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.

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.

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.

Money amplifies what type of person you are in the world.

Don’t let the fact you haven’t done something before convince you that you can’t do it, or that it cannot be done perfectly the first time you try your hand at it.

It is not your business to succeed, but to do right. When you have done so the rest lies with god.

I have to just worry about my own opinion and the opinions of the people I'm working with and people who are close to me.

I'm always one time zone behind myself.

Make a commitment to your self that today, success is your only options! No matter the obstacles, no matter the sacrifice! you have decided you won't be denied, you won't be defeated!

When you die you pass into inner worlds and continue to perceive. Death is not the dissolution of the self. Death is rather just a change in perception.

Power is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up. There is only one thing, one thing needful: one has only to dare!