For decades to come the spy world will continue to be the collective couch where the subconscious of each nation is confessed.

It's the oldest question of all, George. Who can spy on the spies?

During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.

A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.

The only reward for love is the experience of loving.

Let's all pretend to be someone else, and then perhaps we'll find out who we are.

I think the greatest single enemy is the misuse of information, the perversion of truth in the hands of terribly skillful people.

The cat sat on the mat is not a story. The cat sat on the other cat’s mat is a story.

I used to think it was clever to confuse comedy with tragedy. Now I wish I could distinguish them.

Blackmail is more effective than bribery.

A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.

To have another language is to possess a second soul.

I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since.

To make something, you have to work within your abilities. Honestly assess what you can do and even more important, what can't you do.

Glasgow's not a media center. When you're there, when you're hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or anything like that. You do feel quite alone, in a good way.

I grew up in the countryside, and I was obsessed with horses and wildlife.

In Liberia, the big challenge that remains for us is job creation. We want young people to work or go to school. That is our main preoccupation right now.

So here is what it comes down to: the ultimate choice in life is between pleasing ourselves and pleasing God.

I'd rather see the world from a different angle.

I still feel like I can play defense at first base at a very high level

The moment that you accept life and your life as it is, is the moment that you will start to change your life and this magical life itself.