Durand smiles. There is nothing behind the smile except perhaps another smile, repeating ad infinitum into the distance.'Of course, ' he says.

The greatest happiness is a quiet kind. It’s the tender understanding that we’re living in a very strange place full of strange creatures. And there’s quite a bit of wonder in that.

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly but then less is learned there so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.

I love to crunch numbers. I look at how many fairways I hit, how many greens I hit. I plan my way around the golf course.

I do try to live a normal life.

To leave in search of yourself, of your real needs, is easier when you don't have to justify yourself to anyone, when there are not too many people bestowing you their attention.

I had that hunger, that desire, to be successful and I wasn’t going to let anything stand in my way.

Global food insecurity is increasing...the slim excess of growth in food production over population is narrowing.

We are here simply to decide whether Congress should take the taxpayer dollars of millions of pro-life Americans and use them to fund the destruction of human embryos for research.

What a moth might see from birth to death if black were white and white were black.