You can only judge anything that happened in the times, in the times that that happened.

One man's transparency is another's humiliation.

For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms.

Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.

It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.

The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever.

It might or might not be right to kill, but sometimes it is necessary.

Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfillment.

If you militarise a situation, you beg for an armed response.

When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity.

Once water charges are in place they will only go up. This has been the history of all these charges

Knowledge comes from learning - Ignorance is born from not wanting to know the difference!

Reprove your friends in secret praise them openly.

An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.

When I first see the dailies, I look only at myself, but then you start to see the scene.

How shall I speak of Doom, and ours in special, But as of something altogether common?

The quantum is that embarrassing little piece of thread that always hangs from the sweater of space-time. Pull it and the whole thing unravels.

Coincidences are God's way of getting our attention.

Once you get an agent you're given an opportunity to try a little bit more. It's a really long ladder.

Everyone looks the same to me in a photograph: stupid.

I'm certainly not saying that my life is what success is all about. To me, success is the ongoing process of striving to become more.