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“Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victor's] laurel yield to the [orator's] tongue.”
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“Men act out like they're horrified by marriage, but when they find the woman of their dreams, they love it.”
Source : "What I know about men". Interview With Lucy Siegle, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2006. 
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“On the broad spectrum of solitude, I lean toward the extreme end: I work alone, as well as live alone, so I can pass an entire day without uttering so much as a hello to another human being. Sometimes a day's conversation consists of only five words, uttered at the local Starbucks: 'Large coffee with milk, please.”
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“Perhaps the greatest contribution that those of us who come from a Christian tradition can make is to throw out the old just-war theory, embrace the nonviolence of Jesus, refuse to kill one another, and truly follow his commandment to "love our enemies.”
Source : Mairead Corrigan Maguire (2010). “The Vision of Peace: Faith and Hope in Northern Ireland”, p.64, Wipf and Stock Publishers
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“I readily admit I was not an expert on foreign policy but I was knowledgeable and I didn't need a man who was the Vice President of the United States and my opponent turning around and putting me down.”
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“The praise of the praiseworthy is above all rewards.”
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“It's a great time to be doing political satire when the world is on a knife edge.”
Source : "From our own correspondent". Interview with Edward Helmore, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2007.
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“Lightly I sped when hope was high And youth beguiled the chase,-- I follow, follow still: But I Shall never see her face.”
Source : Frederick Locker-Lampson (1874). “London Lyrics”, p.188
