What we have to do is reinvent the idea of Europe.

They want to derail peace because they want to plunge Northern Ireland back into armed conflict.

I'm a fighter, not a quitter.

We are intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich.

We've got to demonstrate why European unity and integration, our vast single market, our single currency, equip us with the strength to embrace globalization.

I'm optimistic that we are actually seeing the opportunity of a generation being created in this.

I do not share the half-in, half-out attitude to the EU of some in Britain. Britain's place is in Europe.

Essentially we need a new social consensus for economic reform as New Labour has achieved in Britain.

The markets don't like instability and they don't like uncertainty.

Europe has to address people's needs directly and reflect their priorities, not our own preoccupations.

Firstly, people take for granted that the E.U. has created the biggest economic space in the world.

No matter how good you act to be tough, your emotions will flow without your control...

Expectations hinder you from being prepared for the unexpected

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

Who doesn't want to be loved? That's the whole point. So, when you can get that from someone across the globe, for just telling a story, that's a special thing.

Love is the crown that glorifies; the curse That brands and burdens; it is life and death. It is the great law of the universe; And nothing can exist without its breath.

My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.

Fiction and poetry expose intimate things from a person's life every bit as much as memoir does, and sometimes more. I don't quite see or live the distinction you are making about the forms.

James Dean's death had a profound effect on me. The instant I heard about it, I vomited. I don't know why.

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.