I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And unfortunately, there was a price paid in terms of suffering and pain for people in New Orleans.

I have not heard a report of thousands of people in the convention center who don't have food and water.

The Department of Defense took 40 years to get where it got.

There really is no vacation from the world in which we live.

Even the kinds of ingredients you can find in your own kitchen can be used to make bombs. So the problem is with the people and not with the tools.

Al Qaeda is very media-savvy and very focused on what goes on in the global media.

First, we did rank everybody by risk, and New York comes out number one.

We've done it in intelligence sharing and certain elements of security. There were parts of the department, in fact, that worked very well in Katrina, like the Coast Guard and TSA.

Humanity had to expand the limits of its consciousness to learn to ask the right questions.

To be at peace, does not mean that you are amiss of every storm, it only means that you can find a calm within the storm.

I've loved many women...I'm not going to lie to you, but it never works...vanity always gets in the way.

All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.

Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.

Daddy always said the only thing worth begging for was your life, but maybe he was wrong. Maybe sometimes your love is a little bit worth begging for, too.

One of the fun things about play is making up stories.

It's not the notes you play, it's the notes you don't play.

She was gone, and all that was left was the space where you'd grown around her, like a tree that grows around a fence.

I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.