Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.