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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Anybody can be a runner. We were meant to move. We were meant to run. It's the easiest sport.

I have a face like the behind of an elephant.

How does Macy Gray or Kid Rock not win over Christina Aguilera?

Sooner or later. It had better be sooner. Later is like the horizon; it recedes as you approach.

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin,' in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same.

I don't think closeted homosexual morticians have the market cornered on self-loathing or sense of shame.

That's always been my test for what makes a story: is this something journalists would gossip with each other about?

With charity, money is purified. By service, our actions are purified. With music, our emotions are purified and with knowledge our intellect is purified.

Study people's success stories hard. Study their failures even harder.