One of the problems of not allowing the American people to read what bin Laden has said is that in October 2001 just after the war began in Afghanistan, he gave a speech that had two parts to it.

Sister Virginia used to say, 'You'll be known by the company you keep.'

It's not a choice between war and peace. It's a choice between war and endless war. It's not appeasement. I think it's better even to call it American self-interest.

A nuclear weapon of some dimension, whether it's actually a nuclear weapon, or a dirty bomb, or some kind of radiological device. Yes, I think it's probably a near thing.

We haven't done anything. That has devolved into a partisan bickering of the kind that says Nero was fiddling while Rome burned.

You just have to come to grips with the fact that people don't like to be invaded or bombed by anybody. And America has been engaged in that.

The war in Iraq - if Osama was a Christian - it's the Christmas present he never would have expected.

Most dramatically, and perhaps least noticed, is the violence inside Saudi Arabia itself.

I don't believe in inevitability. But I think it's pretty close to being inevitable...Yes, I think it's probably a near thing.

If the Americans attack Iran for the first time in 1,400 years, we may unite Sunnis and Shias against us. So I guess there is room for accomplishment everywhere.

I think we'll see it mostly in the United States. We're getting to the point where al Qaeda is ready to again attack us inside America. I think we're basically defenseless.

We are not here to build our empire only but also to help people discover the kingdom of God

You can't just trot out a brown face or a Spanish surname and expect people are going to vote for your party or your candidate.

Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.

From every Englishman emanates a kind of gas, the deadly choke-damp of boredom.

Lines don't make a beautiful woman less beautiful.

I was always the one in the background or the donkey. I was never a star, I never got to be the main part.

Accident is simply unforeseen order.

There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.

Don't be a blueprint. Be an original.

Compare not thyself with those that have less than thyself, but look on those that have far exceeded thee.