When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don't learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.

In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change.

If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests.

The future lies in unity and respect, not division and stereotypes

Never make a decision while in the state of anger.

The Arab World is writing a new future the pen is in our own hands.

It's about making a choice to make your marriage a priority, to, kind of, put that at the top of the page, as your mission statement or something.

You can see the people who thought they could come to London, bend over and pick gold off the streets. They’re all lying on benches in Trafalgar Square with hernias and cans of Special Brew.

Reading is dreaming. Reading is entering a world of imagination shared between reader and author. Reading is getting beyond the words to the story or meaning underneath.

I think we're all sort of imprisoned by - or at least bound to - the choices we make... You want to say no at the right time and you want to say yes more sparingly.

I many no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather response to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not.

Whatever else I do before finally I go to my grave, I hope it will not be looking after young people.

In my life the right question is simply this: What can I do to be happy today?

Sometimes in life it is most wise to behave like a bridge: Don't judge the person who comes to you; let him come and pass! Behave like a bridge!

You have to be able to say what people are thinking but won't say. It's like Donald Trump.

Uh-huh. You know with that sinister tone you should look into working for the IRS. I’m sure they’re desperate for people who can cow others with a single growl. (Susan)