Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them.

Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission.

Encouraging underground uranium mining on the Colorado Plateau um, the federal government was the only purchaser of uranium ore to try to manufacture uh, atomic bombs.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

When it comes to love, everyone is a liar.

It is essential that we provide the best possible care for our wounded and disabled veterans.

Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.

Athletes, coaches and parents today are increasingly aware of the danger of concussion, and this awareness influences decisions about buying new and reconditioned football helmets.

Over the long haul of life on the planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.

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

One puts on black robes to scare the hell out of white people, while the other puts on white robes to scare the hell out of blacks.

Get it out. The pain doesn't have as much power when you share it.

You're special, Deirdre, and don't ever think otherwise.

And it came to me as I stood on the desert sand, looking at the Great Pyramid, that what any civilization says about God tells us more about that civilization than it does about God.

One should never be where one does not belong.

Nixon's attempts to order subversion of various departments was bound to come out in some form.

The idea of the extreme makeover is disturbing.

The rules are simple and easily understood by anyone who has once seen the game, but to the totally uninitiated they appear to be hopelessly unintelligible.

I remember becoming aware of women's issues and inequality. It became glaringly clear to me when I was living in America that women are regarded as less intelligent than men.

Poets and monks... We're both sort of peripheral to the world.

I know that bands that haven't put out a record for 10 years are playing to 20,000 people a night. But that's not the achievement.