It might or might not be right to kill, but sometimes it is necessary.

One man's transparency is another's humiliation.

For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms.

Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.

It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.

The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever.

Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfillment.

If you militarise a situation, you beg for an armed response.

When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity.

Once water charges are in place they will only go up. This has been the history of all these charges

Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead and gone. I've hugged trees in every part of this little island.

Perspective [is] a luxury when your head [is] constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons.

Men are especially intolerant of serving and being ruled by, their equals.

The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.

The causes that govern the heart appear to be wholly alien to the results achieved. Are the forces that moved a desperate criminal the same that fill a martyr with pride, as both mount the scaffold?

Truth lies at the confluence of independent streams of evidence.

I never feel more alive than when I'm on stage. On film you feel chopped up, you can be acting from the neck up, or the hand, there is a lot of close up.

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.

The only bookstore I had was the paperback rack at the drugstore.

I don't break; I bounce.

I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.