In order to be successful against each of these threats we have to have a presence overseas work closely not only with our counterparts in the law enforcement community but also with the intelligence community.

In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity no humor no overstatement can quite extinguish the physicists have known sin and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

People tend to overstate my resilience but of course I hope they're right.

Hope is such a bait it covers any hook.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief a forlorn hope it is impossible.

It began to dawn on me that perhaps my country needed me more at home than overseas.

The bottom line is that the human body is complex and subtle and oversimplifying - as common sense sometimes impels us to do - can be hazardous to your health.

Obama's health care plan will be written by a committee whose head John Conyers says he doesn't understand it. It'll be passed by Congress that has not read it signed by a president who smokes funded by a Treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes overseen by a Surgeon General who is obese and financed by a country that's nearly broke. What could possibly go wrong?

Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep left there to dream of their happiness.

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside thinking that his happiness lies outside him finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

All really great lovers are articulate and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

And you can't have a prosperous economy when the government is way overspending raising tax rates printing too much money over regulating and restricting free trade. It just can't be done.

I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial that would not really cost the government a lot of money.

The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

In truth politeness is artificial good humor it covers the natural want of it and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.