I was incredulous as the bias of the media in terms of the candidates [for presidency]. I was incredulous at the fake news.

We have to raise our young boys to respect women and our young girls to demand respect and to get their values from something other than their physicality.

I'm not in love with David Petraeus. But I think he does present a terrific role model.

I haven't had senators advocating for me.

As an intelligence officer, if you don't have a security clearance, you really don't have a job. My military position was, and has been, frozen, for four years.

If I'm strong, I'm not going to apologize for being strong.

When I fell, some people were in such shock that they didn't reach out. They were so mad at me, rather than having compassion for what happened. I lost a lot of friends.

[My kids] were very young at the time and didn't realize what was going on. We told them that mom made a mistake and people want to talk about it in the news so they're outside our house.

I think the public doesn't understand that one of the reasons I haven't stood up for myself is because in order to do that, I have to stoop to a level that further humiliates other people.

It's reducing my entire professional career and background to this one word [mistress].

I was an academic and I lost my assignment at Harvard. Meanwhile, [David Petraeus] gets invited to Harvard to become a fellow.

Where you feel like really giving up is where your threshold growth lies.

I have a great belief in the future of my people and my country.

It takes all sorts to make a world - saints as well as soldiers.

Almost any questions can be answered,cheaply, quickly and finally, by a test campaign. And that's he way to answer them - not by arguments around a table

Tantra is not for a hedonist at all. It won't work. If you're heavily attracted to sensual experiences, tantra will definitely not be of any use to you.

There is a politeness of the heart; this is closely allied to love.

Bruno: "Why do you wear pajamas all day?" Shmuel: "The soldiers. They took all our clothes away." Bruno: "My dad's a soldier, but not the sort that takes people's clothes away."

I have better use for my brain than to poison it with alcohol. To put alcohol in the human brain is like putting sand in the bearings of an engine.

All is but illusion and disaster.

Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Fancy is always excursive; imagination, not seldom, is sedate.