What Ireland needs now above all else is peace.

The IRA have nowhere to go. I've stripped away all their excuses, one by one.

I am convinced that nobody should be afraid of peace.

Everything is worse...if you think something is looking at you.

Absence of thought is indeed a powerful factor in human affairs, statistically speaking the most powerful, not just in the conduct of the many but in the conduct of all.

Love is quivering happiness.

If you want a friend, feed any animal.

We should go to the moon and prepare a base to fire a rocket off to Mars and then go to Mars and colonize Mars. Then when we do that, we will live forever.

Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality.

The revolutionary can have no friendship or attachment, except for those who have proved by their actions that they, like him, are dedicated to revolution.

[on marriage equality] It literally is a threat to the nation's survival in the long run.

Our everyday lives are filled with complex decisions. We long for simplicity and ordinariness.

I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.