Gold has an almost atavistic lure. People feel it has a panacea effect.

When hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world went to the Yukon to look for gold, the original prospectors had already claimed most of it.

Ships are blowing up at sea, or catching fire, factories are blowing up. Are these accidents? Are these industrial sabotage? No one really suspected a spy network.

The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.

things are never so indescribably ghastly that they can't get worse.

Logistics comprises the means and arrangements which work out the plans of strategy and tactics. Strategy decides where to act; logistics brings the troops to this point.

A shelf of classics for our young adults: Tolkien, Hesse, Casteneda, Kerouac, Salinger, Tom Robbins, and _The Last Whole Earth Catalog_.

William Shakespeare tried hard to see every facet of every question, probably because he was more interested in questions than in answers. That's a big part of what makes him great, in my opinion.

I was involved as deputy mayor in New York City on 9/11.

I believe that the federal government should be laying down broadband like Eisenhower laid down interstates.

Want to extinguish an adolescent's curiosity? Cover as much material as possible.

I've had tonsilitis and I'm not sure if I can sing on Saturday [whilst out on the town in the West End]

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.