Expertise is great, but it has a bad side effect: It tends to create the inability to accept new ideas.

Confidence in a forecast rises with the amount of information that goes into it. But the accuracy of the forecast stays the same.

Breathing will change your life! Breathing is the most important thing you will ever do.

Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.

The character is a piece of fiction. You are yourself, however, and that makes you interesting, because you're alive and you're a human being.

We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children.

When you think about something, you separate yourself from it.

Some things are as they are regardless of what they were.

I really love Durham more than any place I've ever been; some small towns can be really provincial and strangling, but Durham is the best city in the world.

All hurricanes are acts of God because God controls the heavens. I believe that New Orleans had a level of sin that was offensive to God and they were recipients of the judgment of God for that.

An example is ObamaCare, which is now embattled in the Senate. If that goes through the way [Barack] Obama wants, we will have something very much like the British system.

I was raised in rural south Jersey, and there was no culture there. There was a small library, and that was it. There was nothing else.

We must endeavor to forget our former love for them [the British] and to hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.