Quotes of the week.
The Holy Father was a priest to the last.
- Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, dean of the College of Cardinals, delivers a homily at the funeral of Pope John Paul II
When you see his face, and when you hear him speak, you should have the impression like that made by the arrival of John Paul II in October 1978 - wow, here you can see Christ come among us.
- Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, Archbishop of Lyons is asked to describe the ideal qualities of a new pope
Without John Paul, Poland is an orphan.
- Zofia Tumulska at a Mass in Warsaw for the Pope
Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment. That struggle can now be taken forward by other means.
- The Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams calls on the IRA to commit to peace
There must be a complete and total abandonment of IRA/Sinn Féin and that's not going to happen.
- The response of DUP leader Ian Paisley
Mineke Kamper said that if we got conventional medical attention, Paul would die and she could and would cure him.
- Michelle Howie whose husband Paul died from a tumour two years ago. He had been receiving treatment from Ms Kamper, a homeopath, a medical inquest was told this week
I'd like to have several explosions. He loved explosions.
- Anita Thompson, wife of the late Hunter S Thompson, on the writer's wish to have his ashes fired from a cannon
I think I have achieved the objective of my life. Kashmir is my mother; I am meeting my mother.
- Zia Sardar, a passenger on the first cross-Kashmir bus service in nearly 60 years, passes over the Line of Control dividing the region between Srinagar in the Indian sector and the Pakistan-controlled Kashmir
I had a good time. They have turkey burgers, too, which they didn't have when I was here. If they'd been serving me turkey burgers, I might not have had heart surgery.
- Bill Clinton, former US president, who flew on Air Force One for the first time since his presidency to attend the Pope's funeral.
His courage and tenacity in the face of illness will remain with us as an example.
- President Jacques Chirac of France pays tribute to Prince Rainier of Monaco, who died this week, aged 81
The wall of silence created by both Sinn Féin and the IRA is as strong today as it was on the first day.
- Catherine McCartney, sister of Robert McCartney who was murdered outside a Belfast bar