“First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost...”

“The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for wo...”

“I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my...”

“To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the bene...”

“To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?”

“Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and...”

“The future is as bright as the promises of God.”

“It's like real life: We don't get a preview of what's coming up, thank God, and we don't build our own character from what we're g...”

“Any political party that undertakes to do it will, in God's name, be trampled, as it ought to be trampled, into the dust of condem...”

“Western Christians have imagined that, at the end of the day, God is going to throw the present space-time universe into a trashca...”

“I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the go...”

“I am not like a pebble on the beach - a grain of sand on the seashore or just one of millions of human beings past, present and fu...”