If [Bush's] successors don't screw it up, within 10 years NASA will have us back to where we belong -- on other worlds.

When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back.

A drone is a high-tech version of an old army and a musket. It ought to be used in Somalia to hunt bad guys, but not in America. I don't want to see it hovering over anybody's home.

Chess: It's like alcohol. It's a drug. I have to control it, or it could overwhelm me. I have a regular Monday night game at my home, and I do play a little online.

To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.

There's a reason why in New York Harbor we have the Statue of Liberty, not the Statue of Equality.

If fences don't work, why is there one around the White House.

In explaining any puzzling Washington phenomenon, always choose stupidity over conspiracy, incompetence over cunning. Anything else gives them too much credit.

Better to be paralyzed from the neck down than the neck up

Washington is the only place in the world where a gaffe is when a politician accidently speaks the truth.

Obsession with self is the motif of our time.

The workshop door opened and Skulduggery emerged. "Ryan, " he said, "stop leaning on my car.

You'll drive yourself crazy trying to control something that isn't yours to control. Let go. Free yourself. Allow your mind and energy to focus on something positive… to build something beautiful.

I prefer, where truth is important, to write fiction.

Healing is about being awake. Being broken and whole at the same time.

Greatest thing we can produce is character. Everything else can be taken from us, but not our character.

People say to me, well "What's the character you really want to play?" And I go, I don't know.

If the frontline people do count, you couldn't prove it by examining the reward systems in most organizations.

Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait.

When you deal with a film that takes place in Europe, and you're going to work in English, you'd better work with European actors.

SOONER OR LATER ALL MEN MUST DIE. EVERYTHING DIES IN THE END. I CAN BE ROBBED BUT NEVER DENIED, I TOLD MYSELF. WHY WORRY? “I too cannot be cheated,” snapped Fate.