The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.

No person wakes up and finds themselves on the world stage. When that happens, it is in the movies.

Jesus changes everything about a person’s life, from the obvious to the unseen. He shatters black and white into brilliant color and shakes the asleep until they’re wide awake.

Affliction is a good man's shining time.

Few secret undertakings ever did any nation any good.

As they say, one thing led to another, and, ultimately, the British and Irish governments asked me to serve as chairman of the peace negotiations, which ironically began six years ago this week.

I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill.

I have always been interested in gender politics, so I'm not that keen on doing things that don't represent a truth about women.

What luxury would I take to a desert island? A mirror. It's true. I'd miss me.

The one thing that unites Sunni, Shiites and Kurds is they want the Americans out.

Compassion is ethical intelligence: it is the capacity to make connections and the consequent urge to act to relieve the suffering of others.