I truly believe that if torture had worked and there was a case to be made for it, we would see that on the front pages of the American press.

Bethlehem was God with us, Calvary was God for us, and Pentecost is God in us.

If you want prisoners to be tortured, you send them to Syria. If you want someone to disappear – never to see them again – you send them to Egypt.

The CIA is an incompetent bureaucracy, generally.

I take my own experience and other assassinations through history and get a lot into the drone program, which doesn't work, as well.

There is a tendency in any conflict, especially in a democracy, to fight the enemy you can, not the enemy you should.

Egypt is the next domino to fall and, as they say, so goes Egypt so goes the Middle East.

My take on the torture thing and even drones is: If we're going to get into assassination and torture, the second question is the morality, but the first is the effectiveness of it.

Did bin Laden act alone, through his own al-Qaida network, in launching the attacks? About that I'm far more certain and emphatic: no.

She leaned out of the window slow and sleepy, and the light came through her nightdress like sand through a sieve.

I am afraid the Spanish American has not always a very strict regard for truth.

I got a muscle of love.

There isn't a single motivation, thought, act, or word that has slipped out of your being and escaped the full, undivided attention of God.

I never really thought about becoming a professional musician.

My act has always reflected what's going on in my life.

Washington is awash in post-war testosterone.

If we think about it, all great discoveries and paradigm shifts are always stimulated by an external event.

Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue.

Woe and death to all who resist my will!