Peace cannot be built on exclusion. That has been the price of the past 30 years.

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.

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

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

Positive strength, positive action.

Man is fully responsible for his nature, choices and lifestyle.

Every morning brings thousands of opportunities

…mysticism –perhaps the main aberration of the human mind.

What kind of beast would turn its life into words?

I lead a life of blameless domesticity and always have done.

That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slow, endures.

Well, I certainly was exposed to and learned to appreciate the work of great directors early on. As a kid, my mother used to take me to see really interesting arty films in Los Angeles.

We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.