This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist.

It was a bad idea, because I think that any government reorganization has to come in relatively small bites, or else you get indigestion.

Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.

Supreme Court opinion notwithstanding, corporations are not defined as people under the Constitution, and free speech can hardly be called free when only the rich are heard.

Politics is too important to be left to politicians.

What we found out with Katrina is that the country is still unable to deal with disaster. God forbid this happens in San Francisco.

And if you do all you can, that's all you can ever do.

Is it not time to cry that the blind shall see, the deaf hear, the lame walk? But that which fanaticism formerly promised to its elect, science now accomplishes for all men.

If there is life, then I believe we should do nothing to disturb that life. Mars then, belongs to the Martians, even if they are microbes.

I have taken advantage of other people's weaknesses in order to cover my own.

Records, radio, television, movies, magazines-all are monopolized by the money managers who are guided by one ethic, the words wealth and power.

You really have to focus on what you're doing and just plow ahead no matter what hurdles are thrown in front of you.

Before you touch anybody you have to make sure that you are as pure as possible. If you don't purify yourself of all the inner duality, negativity can prevail through the flow of the psyche.

The truffle is not a positive aphrodisiac, but it can upon occasion make women tenderer and men more apt to love.

Every life comes with a story ... and a possibility for a great adventure.

No effort is complete without prayer - without definite recognition that the best human endeavor is of no effect if it has not God's blessing behind it.

It was amazing. You don't have a choice but to play your best. They force you do do that because they're smart and that's the fun part for me, I'm being challenged to think faster and be creative.