Thank [Barack Obama] for the friendship you've always demonstrated.

I might bend, but I will NEVER break because it's in my nature as a strong woman.

Always be more than you appear and never appear to be more than you are.

Look forward to the future and look forward to the unknown. Nothing stays the same and people change. One day that hurt and pain will be a distant memory.

Freedom does not mean being free of something, but to be free to do something.

I never underestimated myself. And I never saw anything wrong with ambition.

When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises.

I am thankful for all the hard times I've been through and all the tears I've cried because that has put me as closer to God and made me the strong woman I am today!

Ladies, it is not your education, status or personality that has brought you here but the elegance of God which was still and still working upon you.

Nobody in Europe will be abandoned. Nobody in Europe will be excluded. Europe only succeeds if we work together.

I am not here for women only, but also for women.

I tell them that love is always there–that nothing can keep us from love if we dare to seek it and to treasure what we find.

To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown.

I love fashion. I think it's so important, because it's how you show yourself to the world.

Together with the puzzle, Mozart gives you the solution.

Afflictions clarify the soul.

To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.

Play doesn't have to be the opposite of work.

All leaders are permanent learners.

The fact is, I've always felt more British than Irish. Maybe it was the way I was brought up, I don't know, but I have always felt more of a connection with the U.K. than with Ireland.

The chief thing that separates us from God is the thought that we are separated from God.