Because sometimes the best leaders are the ones who have no interest in leading. Those are often the ones who are most interested in doing what is right, not what is popular.

History says that progress often requires sacrifice, but what kind of progress can we claim when it is built on the lives of the citizens it is supposed to aid?

It takes a lot of courage to choose to do nothing when you aren’t certain of the outcome.

Things don't always work out the way we hope. You just have to pick yourself up and find a new direction to go in.

Leaders are forced to kill all the time. Then they have to learn to live with the decisions they make. Just like I'm going to learn to live with mine.

People will believe the crisis is over because they want to believe their world is safe.

No one gets something for nothing, we all should know better

The time to lead is now.

It's been so long since I've been okay, I don't know what it feels like anymore.

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

Such a small, pure object a poem could be, made of nothing but air a tiny string of letters, maybe small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. But it could blow everybody's head off.

Lewis had developed a trademark style, slow enough for note taking, loud enough to rouse the dullest listener, straightforward, abundantly furnished with quotations, and lavish in wit.

Heavenly onwards!

As a young man on the streets of Derry, I saw Ian Paisley as an immortal opponent of everything to do with equality, justice, fairness, and respect for Irishness.

My aunt played the piano and I used to sit and listen to it.

I would apply international law and I think we need to be a force for international law.

The tendency in today's culture is to want to be a 'star', but I want to be a servant.

I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going.

Fury snorted. "You're the leader, Vane. Lead.