What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Bertrand Russell

I have a theory that as long as you have one good friend, one real friend, you can get through anything.

Dana Reinhardt

An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.

Ida P. Rolf

I don't think there's a problem with being a teen idol, if that happens to me, I'll be happy to deal with it.

Josh Hartnett

It is not the Government, the members of Parliament to whom the ultimate decision belongs, it is up to you to go forward sure of your sacred right of free opinion, sure of your patriotism.

John Amery

Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.

Samuel Richardson

Knowledge is a beautiful thing, but there are a few things I wish I didn't know.

Susan Orlean

Muslims have a very bad attitude to homosexuality, they're very intolerant.

Pim Fortuyn

The nobler the blood the less the pride.

Danish proverb

Beauty can pierce one like pain.

Thomas Mann

A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children.

David Brenner

If you wish to prosper, let your customer prosper...When people have learned this lesson, everyone will seek his individual welfare in the general welfare. Then jealousies between man and man, city and city, province and province, nation and nation, will no longer trouble the world.

Fr