We have to know who we are and know what we believe.

The kids are Job One. So, to be quite candid, if they need me, I do my utmost to make sure I'm there.

Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities.

The larger picture here is that a North Korea with nuclear weapons adds to the larger proliferation risk.

I have been to Libya and walked the streets of Benghazi myself.

I would rather be alone and a loud voice for action than be silent.

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Once you've learned to study in a bathing suit on the grass with muscled men throwing frisbees over your head, you can accomplish almost anything.

Focus on something that stirs your soul, it's hard to excel at anything that you don't love.

I have no regrets whatsoever that I have acted in a way to advance my country's interests

I was very happy in my job at the United Nations.

There is only one all-pervading God. It has no religion, no incarnation. It is free from all contaminations.

He is much to be dreaded who stands in dread of poverty.

The mind is complicated and you can't trace the roots of its processes, but there is something about mathematical and algorithmic patterns that I like to recognize in things.

I sort of plunged into filmmaking. I decided I'd jump off the deep end, so I started thinking about what kind of a movie I should try to make.

I'm going up to my room now, where I may die.

To have memories of those you have loved and lost is perhaps harder than to have no memories.

We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place--or not to bother

Luck never built a business. Prosperity and growth come only to the business that systematically finds and exploits its potential.

If they can't do it in California, it can't be done anywhere.

An agrarian mind begins with the love of fields and ramifies in good farming, good cooking & good eating