My clerkship with Justice Douglas was tremendously important. He told me, Christopher, get out into the stream of history and see what happens. I've tried to follow that advice.

When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.

Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders.

I wish the meeting had been as good as the lunch.

It will be undertaken, of course, in the June or July summit, and then to bring NATO closer to Russia or vice versa is a way to move toward integration - toward the integration of Europe.

One always wonders about roads not taken.

It's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe.

We've had it very clear to the Bosnians that our obligation to equip and train their forces is completely conditional on the foreign forces being gone.

I was born in a very small town in North Dakota, a town of only about 350 people. I lived there until I was 13. It was a marvelous advantage to grow up in a small town where you knew everybody.

I'm very skeptical about the good intentions of Milosevic.

I'm very much in favor of focused responsibility, and so in the main areas that I'm worried about, I try to have a single person who is basically the key person in that area.

Pride becomes the blanket transgression that conceals the rest of our sins, allowing us to remain blind to them.

Be thankful for the simple things and God's love and you will never be disappointed when life gets hard.

The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.

All object printed: Love me. Look me. Million speaking objects,begging. Crown American consumer with power of king, to rescue choose and give home or abandon here for expire.

It is your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself, that determines how your life’s story will develop.

Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the Gypsies.

America's veterans deserve the very best health care because they've earned it.

You can't be one of the best freesurfers and a world champion.

You won," Four mutters. "Stop." I wipe the sweat from my forehead. He stares at me. His eyes are too wide; they look alarmed.

Even with or without the show I'm always thinking of the next thing. If it's meant to be, it's meant to be. That's kind of been the story of my career.