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

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.

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.

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

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?

We can change reality just from assumptions accepted as true, regardless if they could be quantifiably accepted as true through the physical

There is no such thing as magic, " she told me. "You can b e l i e v e all you want, but it's never going to do you any good. Nobody flies. We only fall

Your future is not fixed

TP53 seems to encode the greater good, like a suicide pill in the mouth of a soldier that dissolves only when it detects evidence that he is about to mutiny.

Through one all are known, through one all are also seen

If two men or two women can marry, then there is no way a court could deny three men and two women or any combination thereof.

It cannot be that the people should grow in grace unless they give themselves to reading. A reading people will always be a knowing people.

If there's a therapist who wants a writing project, I think there's a need for a book about how the culture affects the mental health of boys.

Dividing an elephant in half does not produce two small elephants.

Cunning is strength withheld.