Another very strong image from the first day was giving my initial press conference in the morning - going down and finding out that everything I had said, the essence of what I had said, was wrong.

The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.

My time inside there was very short compared to the amount of time it took to take on and take off this suit and to test me for how much radioactivity I have.

By Thursday morning, we'd gotten over the worst of it.

I was scheduled to give my first official press conference that morning anyway, 'cause I was chairman of the Governors Energy Council and I was making a press conference with regard to energy policy.

And I remember walking in there and, I must say, I was quite unnerved the closer I got to it.

There were schools and hospitals who were ready to take people with undescribed injuries, but not necessarily ready to take people with severe radiation poisoning.

And if you're not going to have a clear health threat, you don't want to panic people.

You need a graphic understanding of a situation to make a complete judgment and we didn't have that.

A life that is actually lived is one that is with significance.

Wisdom is when you understand what, previously, at best you only knew.

Chess is a game of bad moves.

The entire universe is perfused with signs, if it is not composed exclusively of signs.

Never so long as you live, write a letter to a man - no matter who he is - that you would be ashamed to see in a newspaper above your signature.

Spiritual people don't float around all day on clouds of glory; they live in the real world and deal with real issues in real ways.

What day is so festal it fails to reveal some theft?

I like to be able to play a character and act out a lot of things which I can't or don't do in my normal everyday life.

The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card.

It's my wish that I can help creative people think of new ways to be creative - to get more joy and understanding from their own unique processes.