As strenuous challenge or contemplative retreat, the parks and other units of the national lands offer welcome respite from the world, a safety valve for body and spirit.

A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence.

I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience - and laughter.

If possible, forget the past. Look forward to the future.

When you're a kid, you listen to what your family is listening to. For my family, it was bluegrass.

I guess I have to prove myself all over again, even if it's to the world. I don't have a problem doing that.

Contrary to the received wisdom, global markets are not unregulated. They are regulated to produce inequality.

In 1823, William Webb Ellis first picked up the ball in his arms and ran with it. And for the next 156 years forwards have been trying to work out why.

I make jokes about the fact that as a neuro-surgeon I shouldn't be required at a motor race because the drivers don't have any brains.... otherwise they wouldn't race.

God is never late, but He sure is slow.

I didn't know what was going on at the start in the swirling wind. The flags were all pointing in different directions and I thought the Irish had starched them just to fool us.

My longing for truth was a single prayer.

Wine is like women. It tempts you; it comforts you; it confuses you and can even turn on you when you least expect it. It can be your friend one day and your enemy the next.

I keep my self updated by reading different books and encyclopedias.

There's a difference between Vaselining the rapee and catching the rapist.

The English language is not always the President's friend.

There the Bush Administration has offered only a merry-go-round policy. They got up on their high horse, whooped and hollered, rode around in circles and ended right back where they'd started.

When you build bridges you can keep crossing them.

I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives

How you think about your spouse greatly impacts how you treat your spouse.