"Count your blessings. Be grateful-- you're alive"

“Europe is my continent, not my country”

Source : John Redwood (2001). “Just Say No!: 100 Arguments Against the Euro”, Politico's Publishing

“I cannot take back one word or action; the past does not change for anyone.”

“There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.”

“If you're playing somebody who is not you, then you can imagine that you are that person. You can feel like he feels, move like he moves, look like he looks - in your own mind.”

“Compassion is more important than intellect in calling forth the love that the work of peace needs, and intuition can often be a far more powerful searchlight than cold reason.”

Source : Betty Williams' Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1977.

“The only reason that we like complex numbers is that we don't like real numbers.”

“There are things and there are faces which, when felt or seen for the first time, stamp themselves upon the mind like a sun image on a sensitized plate and there remain unalterably fixed.”

“But evil fortune has decreed, (The foe of mice as well as men) The royal mouse at last should bleed, Should fall ne'er to arise again.”

Source : Aaron Hill, James Cawthorn, Michael Bruce (1822). “The Poems of Hill, Cawthorn, and Bruce”, p.308