It's tough to know the value of water until it's gone.

I haven't inherited the earth from my parents, I am borrowing it from my children.

It is deeply shocking and incomprehensible to me that despite volumes of documentation and living witnesses who can attest to the horrors of the Holocaust, there are still those who would deny it.

Any doctor will admit that any drug can have side effects, and that writing a prescription involves weighing the potential benefits against the risks.

Genuine dialogue, not rhetorical bomb-throwing, leads to progress.

Political differences will always generate a healthy debate, but over time the dialogue has become more hateful and at times violent.

There is no question that we must do more to secure our borders - but how we go about securing them is also important.

I've come to the conclusion that military style weapons really don't have any place in our society. We ought to reinstate the assault weapons ban that served us well for 10 years from 1994 to 2004.

Stem cells have the potential to be used to treat and better understand some of the world's most deadly and disabling diseases.

The new Congress needs to move quickly to strengthen the Army and Marines - not to send more troops to Iraq - but to rebuild our capacity to meet national security threats globally.

We really don't have a policy [on climate change]. There's a lot of rhetoric and not a lot of action.

No mere mortal man can do what Christ Jesus did?

More and more people think of the critic as an indispensable middle man between writer and reader and would no more read a book alone if they could help it than have a baby alone.

I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist; I want to prove that there is infinite space, infinite meaning, infinite dimension

Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It's a strange world, why make it stranger?

your faith and hope are in god.

Leo Durocher is a man with an infinite capacity for making a bad thing worse.

It seems that we learn lessons when we least expect them but always when we need them the most, and, the true gift in these lessons always lies in the learning process itself.

I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play.

In my fourth grade classroom, I even instituted a government structure, because I was really interested in people having positions and there being law.

When I'm shooting on location, you get ideas on the spot - new angles. You make not major changes but important modifications, that you can't do on a set. I do that because you have to be economical.