going to have an industrial society you must have places that will look terrible. Other places you set aside—to say, ‘This is the way it was.’

He said, “Americans look upon water as an inexhaustible resource. It’s not, if you’re mining it. Arizona is mining groundwater.

Only once in the historical record has a jump on the San Andreas exceeded the jump of 1906. In 1857, near Tejon Pass outside Los Angeles, the two sides shifted thirty feet.

Most times, the leader’s ornament isn’t the smiles you see on their faces during the time of victory. It is the sweats we don’t see when they were struggling behind the scenes.

The world is a fairy tale

A record deal doesn't make you an artist

You have the choice to either pray then plan or pray and wait

I guess I was a conspiracy theorist when I said "no weapons in Iraq." Now they call that history.

When the mischief is done the door is shut.

I'm honoured to have been selected to be the Labour candidate for Manchester Central.

....it cannot be called ingenuity to kill one's fellow citizens, to betray friends, to be without faith, without mercy, without religion; by these means one can aquire power but not glory.

Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths.

Living without virtues is to live divorced from society, seperated from the most important thing in life, community.