And I definitely do that very British thing of, take things with a pinch of salt, stiff upper lip, you know what I mean?
The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
But if republicans are to prevail, if the peace process is to be successfully concluded and Irish sovereignty and re-unification secured, then we have to set the agenda - no-one else is going to do that.