It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.

Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.

Along with that ongoing process Sinn Fein took a decision to establish a peace commission which had the responsibility to travel around the country to receive submissions from the general public, also our opponents.

Jewish history has been in my cultural DNA since I was a child growing up in post-war London. In the midst of that dark, gray, lamenting monochromatic world of the '50s, I had a sense that both Jewish and English history were full of color and light and animation.

Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.