I've seen it over the years, the more intellectual they are, the more work they don't want to do. You have to do both, you have to be able to put in the graft.

I never condemn wrongdoing in any area.

Mr Brown is a politician of exceptional experience and ability, and I am sure he will discharge the office of Prime Minister with distinction

Some people dye their hair yellow or put rings in their noses. I decided I wasn't going to open an account. Put it the other way round - there was no reason that I should.

Sitting on the sidelines, cribbing and moaning is a lost opportunity. I don’t know how people who engage in that don’t commit suicide.

It is quite unacceptable that a member of Dáil Éireann and in particular a Cabinet Minister and Taoiseach, should be supported in his personal lifestyle by gifts made to him personally.

We were always dead against the war.

There are times that all you need is someone who will listen to you without judging you — not telling you what you should have done or should do, but simply, listening to you

To live is to change, to die one hundred deaths.

It isn't how you die. It's what you live for.

We have to have positive male role models.

We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.

I was born at six months, and I weighed 900 grams [less than two pounds]. I have a very heroic birth story.

I hate working out, but I love jumping rope. Theres a rhythm. It's like dancing.

There is absolutely no inevitability, so long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.

We should strive to go on in fortune and misfortune like a clock during a thunderstorm.

And if the big dog ain't me, then the house won't get guarded - period.