My time inside there was very short compared to the amount of time it took to take on and take off this suit and to test me for how much radioactivity I have.

The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.

By Thursday morning, we'd gotten over the worst of it.

Another very strong image from the first day was giving my initial press conference in the morning - going down and finding out that everything I had said, the essence of what I had said, was wrong.

I was scheduled to give my first official press conference that morning anyway, 'cause I was chairman of the Governors Energy Council and I was making a press conference with regard to energy policy.

And I remember walking in there and, I must say, I was quite unnerved the closer I got to it.

There were schools and hospitals who were ready to take people with undescribed injuries, but not necessarily ready to take people with severe radiation poisoning.

And if you're not going to have a clear health threat, you don't want to panic people.

You need a graphic understanding of a situation to make a complete judgment and we didn't have that.

What he sensed more than anything else was kindness – a kindness of a human and immediate sort. It was surprising how very radical this simple emotion could be.

Love is such a deep gratitude. When you are truly in love with life, every breath you take is gratitude.

All of my creation is an effort to weave a web of connection with the world: I am always weaving it because it was once broken.

I don't want to sell my music. I'd like to give it away because where I got it, you didn't have to pay for it.

This means keeping many trails open at once, inevitably requiring a fairly 'parallel' plot. This plot should be discovered rather than announced, so show, don't tell.

My weakness is wearing too much leopard print.

You're a master on blues piano. The real deal.

Laugh at your worries and insecurities. View your anxieties with humor. It will be difficult at first, but you'll gradually get used to it.

At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.

What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies no plenty; Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure.