The FBI's principal priority right now is protecting the United States against another terrorist attack.

The collapse of Enron was devastating to tens of thousands of people and shook the public's confidence in corporate America.

There are only two types of companies: those that have been hacked, and those that will be. Even that is merging into one category: those that have been hacked and will be again.

In the future, the cyber threat will equal or even eclipse the terrorist threat.

So without getting into the specifics, I can tell you that to the extent that investigation is a relatively important investigation and meaningful, the president would have been periodically briefed.

Leaking of classified material is a concern.

No one has ever been able to convince me that optimism is not preferable to pessimism.

In the United States, it's the mandate of the FBI to gather information relating to terrorism, go out and collect it, to do the interviews, to do the investigative work.

I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war.

I think around the world, our agents are the best collectors of information you'll find.

They're - FBI agents are some of the finest people you'll find anyplace in the country or the world. And I'm lucky to have the opportunity to work with them.

The best thing is to possess pleasures without being their slave

His broken heart was unfeeling, like shattered glass in an acid bath.

What you've done is done. You've got a goal you never reach, and it's always farther away. It keeps you walking. I don't want to sit down.

I certainly have had experiences of a sense of wonder at the world and a feeling that even though it could all be explained rationally, it still feels that there is more to it.

With Southern actors you always think you're from the same place. Even if one is from Texas, one is from Georgia, you're like, "oh, you're just down the street, man."

Unlike the ambiguity of life, the ambiguity of language does reach a limit.

I definitely went through my magic phase. I think all little boys do at some point or another - they get fascinated by magic tricks.

And they were all, when their souls grew warm, poets.

False values begin with the worship of things.

Once lucky, twice confident, and thrice dead.