"Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence."

“The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever.”

Source : "Speech by Gerry Adams, then President of Sinn Féin, to a Sinn Féin selection convention in Navan, County Meath". CAIN in the University of Ulster, December 1, 2004.

“The greater hardship you endure, the greater the authority God entrusts to you.”

“I always see myself as, like, equal to everyone.”

“Death is the final wake-up call.”

“For those who have made the ultimate sacrifice, we are grateful that such men and women were among us. For those who continue to serve, we honor their commitment. For those who return to civilian life, we honor their service.”

“When a child becomes an adult . . . the elders are fearful. And for good reason . . . not we but they are the germinators of future generations. Will they leave us behind as we did our parents? Consign us to neatly paved retirement villages? Trample us in the dust as they go flying out to their new galaxies? We had better tie them down, flagellate them, isolate them in the family cocoon, . . . indoctrinate them into the tribal laws and make sure they kneel before the power of the elders.”

“I don't feel that I was a Hollywood-created star.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Saints are the great teachers of the loving-kindness and fascination with God.”