We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn.

Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.

I've had the fame and the joy of getting laughter - those are gifts.

It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war.

Sinn Fein has productively taken the example of South Africa and, as we develop the peace process, we continue to use examples from South Africa.

We have listened here to the delegates who have recalled the terrible human suffering, and the great material destruction of the late war in the Pacific. It is with feelings of sorrow that we recall the part played in that catastrophic human experience by the old Japan.