It's pretty hard to say no when a vice president-elect and a president-elect ask you to be part of the national team.

To put that into some perspective, when Bill Clinton and Al Gore had first taken the idea of the Kyoto Protocol up to the Congress, the United States Senate voted it down 95 to nothing.

Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a mosquito in the room.

Americans are finally realizing that once you lose land, you can't get it back.

Given the scope of the tragedy from last week, I am glad to reassure the people of New York and Washington, D.C. that their air is safe to breath and their water is safe to drink.

One of the strengths of this country has been our diversity. One of the strengths of this country has been the fact that we are a nation of immigrants.

I am struck by how many leading women... today started as Girl Scouts. It is an organization that obviously develops strong women leaders.

The irony here is this administration is spending more money on climate change research and development than any administration in all the rest of the industrialized world combined.

The world the Citadel is building has no place in it for sorcery or prophecy or glass candles, much less for dragons.

I make one request:love me.Not convenient loveor conditional love.Rather the kind of lovewhere eyes meet& souls greet.Where the depthis unfathomable.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down.

America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago.

Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affliction or grief has humanized the soul.

If the #2 pencil is the most popular, why is it still #2?

Thinking of nothing. Trying to think of nothing. Thinking of everything.

If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third.

Uncorrupted man, with God's blessing, advances across the fields of the universe as though he were walking down a country lane.