When you strip away all the little things that divide us, it's important to remember how tied we are

There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who have seen the Taj Mahal and love it and those who have not seen the Taj and love it.

We cannot build our own future without helping others to build theirs.

I did not have sexual relations with that woman

NAFTA means jobs. American jobs, and good paying American jobs. If I didn't believe that, I wouldn't support this agreement.

It is dangerously destabilizing to have half the world on the cutting edge of technology while the other half struggles on the bare edge of survival.

Globalisation is not something that we can hold off or turn off. It is the economic equivalent of a force of nature, like wind or water.

It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is.

I admire that about the Republicans: The evidence does not faze them. They are not bothered at all by the facts.

Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline.

AIDS is no longer a death sentence for those who can get the medicines. Now it's up to the politicians to create the "comprehensive strategies" to better treat the disease.

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.

The imaginary is what tends to become real.

To be one of a pair of bodies that knew that melting fusion. To reach and find. To be and reached for and found. To belong to a mutual certainty. To wake up holding hands.

You, know, the only thing I can be is a writer. I'm absolutely unprepared for anything else. When you've lived the kind of life I have, you are good for nothing. Only writing can save you.

The Bad Seeds are a band I will travel a great distance to see whenever possible.

It is observable that God has often called men to places of dignity and honor when they have been busy in the honest employment of their vocation.

I was the happiest guy in the world when I was on the ice. You're being paid to play a game! That's pretty special.

It's very hard to have lived through the Sixties and not be political.

When I stopped eating meat, I fell in love with East Indian food - there's so much selection, and they use the most beautiful spices.

And finally, no matter how good the science gets, there are problems that inevitably depend on judgment, on art, on a feel for financial markets.