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

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.

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

Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead and gone. I've hugged trees in every part of this little island.

When you become the light, there will be no darkness.

In taking care with language, we take care of ourselves.

But, alas! Misfortunes are too apt to wear out Friendship.

I don't think that I'm embracing any kind of leadership for transparency or trans advocacy.

He who knoweth the reader, doeth nothing more for the reader. Another century of readers - and spirit itself will stink.

Photographing is an emotional thing, a graceful thing. Photography allows me to wander with a purpose.

Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to confront them with their own great themes.

The underlying intellectual argument for seeking to tax economic rents retains its force.

When I was in school, working as a team was called cheating.

Blest be those feasts, with simple plenty crowned, Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale.