I decided to shift my energy and concentration into changing my lifestyle and diet and taking charge of my own illness.

Dedicated researchers seek better treatments and cures for diabetes, kidney disease, Alzheimer's and every form of cancer. But these scientists face an array of disincentives. We can do better.

My experience indicates that most people who've accumulated a great deal of wealth haven't had that as their goal at all. Wealth is only a by-product, not the original motivation.

The past is always triple-A. We can all remember what the past was. But if we try to make the future triple-A, we have no future. The future is always single-B.

The future of our country is not found in our boardrooms, but in our classrooms.

In financing growing companies, we always looked for human value that didn't appear on the balance sheet.

The rest of the world is growing so quickly, they'll be looking for anything to buy.

For those of us who have lost loved ones in their prime - as I did when my father and other relatives succumbed - even one of those years would have been a precious gift.

So many of my family and friends had lost their battles against cancer. What could I do that my relatives and friends had not? What could I do that would be different?

The crux and crisis is that man found it natural to worship, even natural to worship unnatural things

I could say, as a member of Congress, we usually get an alert if something is going to happen at the Capitol.

People see the wrongness in an idea much quicker that the rightness.

On sand, you can never be sure of anything. An ordinary shot can take a wicked deflection at the last moment.

Gandalf, dwarves and Mr. Baggins! We are met together in the house of our friend and fellow conspirator, this most excellent and audacious hobbit—may the hair on his toes never fall out!

Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas have recognized Israel's right to exist. The Israeli government has never recognized our right to a sovereign state and self-determination.

I know who I am and what I do.

It is a perversely human perception that animals in their native habitat are running wild.

If you love the wrong people it's still love, isn't it, no matter what kind of love.

In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe.