Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders.

When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.

I wish the meeting had been as good as the lunch.

It will be undertaken, of course, in the June or July summit, and then to bring NATO closer to Russia or vice versa is a way to move toward integration - toward the integration of Europe.

One always wonders about roads not taken.

It's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe.

We've had it very clear to the Bosnians that our obligation to equip and train their forces is completely conditional on the foreign forces being gone.

I was born in a very small town in North Dakota, a town of only about 350 people. I lived there until I was 13. It was a marvelous advantage to grow up in a small town where you knew everybody.

I'm very skeptical about the good intentions of Milosevic.

I'm very much in favor of focused responsibility, and so in the main areas that I'm worried about, I try to have a single person who is basically the key person in that area.

My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened.

that the grace of fable stirs the mind"...and..."that the perusal of excellent books is, as it were, to interview with the noblest men of past ages

The point is you are supposed to vote for the principle of the thing, not the itsy-bitsy detail about this percent and that percent.

loving for their mere artificiality those renunciations that men have unwisely called virtue, as much as those natural rebellions that wise men still call sin.

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it's cool that happens.

When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance.

Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one.

Our two first parents, yet the only two Of mankind, in the happy garden placed, Reaping immortal fruits of joy and love, Uninterrupted joy, unrivalled love In blissful solitude.

Any celebration meal to which guests are invited, be they family or friends, should be an occasion for generous hospitality.

Rule of art: let half-blind purpose lead you.

Sometimes I do what I want to. The rest of the time- I do what I have to.