In the United States, it's the mandate of the FBI to gather information relating to terrorism, go out and collect it, to do the interviews, to do the investigative work.

The collapse of Enron was devastating to tens of thousands of people and shook the public's confidence in corporate America.

There are only two types of companies: those that have been hacked, and those that will be. Even that is merging into one category: those that have been hacked and will be again.

In the future, the cyber threat will equal or even eclipse the terrorist threat.

So without getting into the specifics, I can tell you that to the extent that investigation is a relatively important investigation and meaningful, the president would have been periodically briefed.

Leaking of classified material is a concern.

No one has ever been able to convince me that optimism is not preferable to pessimism.

I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war.

I think around the world, our agents are the best collectors of information you'll find.

They're - FBI agents are some of the finest people you'll find anyplace in the country or the world. And I'm lucky to have the opportunity to work with them.

But we had - I think if you look at law enforcement 10 years ago, if you look at the challenges, the FBI was focused excessively on what was happening in the United States.

After ten pages I felt that Nietzsche was reading me, not I him.

Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy.

Learn her skills, honor her sword, and keep her secrets.

I think I write about things that are mysterious to me.

What do artists do? Artists give people something they didn't know they were missing: a dance, a piece of music, a painting, a piece of sculpture. Catering to that need is the best business strategy.

A pretty move, for the love of God.

Rules are not bad, but they can't save anyone.

You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art.

Do nondoing, strive for non-stiving, savor the flavourless, make much of little, repay enmity with virture; plan for difficulty when it is still easy, do the great while it is still small.

The only thing that is fundamental (real) is consciousness itself; all else is virtual- i.e., a result of an exchange of information within consciousness.