I know people that I respect and admire and look up to who have had extra-marital affairs.

In Lincoln's day a President's religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings no attempts to woo the Religious Right. Few of Lincoln's countrymen knew anything at all of his religious beliefs.

The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me and attracted me.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.

You know women are as promiscuous as men and yet of course people are inhibited from having an affair or a relationship because the real-world consequences are a drag.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

While the wider global environment is worrying we are seeing some positive results in our economic affairs.

I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole but I don't watch politics for sport.

We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

The only love affair I have ever had was with music.

Sexiness particularly in movies is the chess game in the 'Thomas Crown Affair'. It's it's I don't know but Faye Dunaway comes up a lot in that thinking. It's the subtlety of sexiness. The moment you try to be sexy then it's not.

We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children is a pathological way for an individual to run their affairs and it's a pathological way for a society to run its affairs.

I suddenly had this really mad desire to have an affair with a woman. I was divorced. I was childless. I figured there's got to be one more way to really tick off my mom.