It is your duty to do your best. It is not, however, your birth-right to prevail.

Wisdom is when you understand what, previously, at best you only knew.

Words, they say, are the food of minds. But, like other foods, they can do little by themselves.

Sufism is the doing in this lifetime what any fool will be doing in then thousand years’ time.

Independence has made us Soft

Because I am exactly where I should be, doing exactly what I should be doing. That is peace.

Life may change but memories won't.

When a man refuses to take money from those who give money to politicians, you don't pay the piper and sit back and let somebody else call the tune.

It's kind of weird, because I look at myself as just a normal person. My friends get rejected all the time, so why shouldn't I? I don't think I'm anything special.

My job now, as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, is to take this process forward, and that I'm determined to do, whatever old clippings you dig out and whatever old quotes you put before me.

With all our differences, whenever we are confronted with a threat to our security we are not then Republicans or Democrats but Americans; we are not then the fifty states but the United States.

I'm the only one of the republican candidates who's actually turned an economy around and turned it around with the with kind of pro-growth principles that we're talking about for America.

The arguments for purity of life fail of their due influence, not because they have been considered and confuted, but because they have been passed over without consideration.

Politics is about who wins and loses. The rest is of marginal interest.