When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.

Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders.

I wish the meeting had been as good as the lunch.

It will be undertaken, of course, in the June or July summit, and then to bring NATO closer to Russia or vice versa is a way to move toward integration - toward the integration of Europe.

One always wonders about roads not taken.

It's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe.

We've had it very clear to the Bosnians that our obligation to equip and train their forces is completely conditional on the foreign forces being gone.

I was born in a very small town in North Dakota, a town of only about 350 people. I lived there until I was 13. It was a marvelous advantage to grow up in a small town where you knew everybody.

I'm very skeptical about the good intentions of Milosevic.

I'm very much in favor of focused responsibility, and so in the main areas that I'm worried about, I try to have a single person who is basically the key person in that area.

My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened.

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal that will make this world a better place for future generations.

Miracles focused gospel teaches us to be selfish and egocentric.

Under every layer of pain, another layer of recovery lies in wait, the sweet, forever surprising truth of endurance.

My dad would go to work every day and write in a room full of funny people. He enjoyed it. I know great writers who find the process agonising but to me, writing has always been sheer joy.

My own approach has always been to push intense emotions down and attempt to deal with them later.

How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!

Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed.

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

He that cockers his child, provides for his enemie.

My own field, the prevention of genetic disorders in babies, has been possible only because of humane work on animals.