Each step in life has been another step in an area that was a challenge, that is highly satisfying and that gives you a great sense of pride afterwards.

You can't feel the need to be liked in public life, because if you do you will compromise the principles that are so important to the public having confidence in your ethics and integrity.

Books are just old friends waiting to be discovered.

The nine Greek Muses, awakened again for this generation of man and meant to inspire mankind forward in the sciences and the arts.

Wouldn't take nothing for my journey now.

For how can we adopt those things which we do not find in the holy Scriptures?

I was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart.

We should go forward in courts and Congress with investigations into post-9/11 interrogations and the decisions leading to them.

I work on the assumption, or let it be the fear, that the reader will stop reading if I stop being interesting.

The idea that all are children of God is not found in the Bible anywhere.

I try to be a nice person, but it's difficult sometimes.

If you don't love and believe in what you're building, you're likely to give up at some point along the way.