People desire to separate their worlds into polarities of dark and light ugly and beautiful good and evil right and wrong inside and outside. Polarities serve us in our learning and growth but as souls we are all.

The spotlight will always be on me but it's something I'm learning to live with as the years go by.

A University should be a place of light of liberty and of learning.

I am delighted with the strong vote I have received. My message of positive leadership patriotism and commitment clearly was resonating with tens of thousands of ordinary Irish people.

The more that social democracy develops grows and becomes stronger the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies the leadership of their movement and the determination of its direction into their own hands.

Obama has already rejected the bright sunlight of public knowledge which is democracy's great disinfectant and cure.

It's extremely hard for athletes to accept what's happened to them sometimes. It's hard to be beaten by a small margin and I've spoken with athletes who for years afterward have been tormented by the knowledge that had they done something ever so slightly different they could have been one-ten-thousandth of a second quicker.

I agree completely with my son James when he says 'Internet is like electricity. The latter lights up everything while the former lights up knowledge'.

Knowledge once gained casts a light beyond its own immediate boundaries.

Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.