"Egypt's priorities in fact are all related to the environment: food, water, health, energy, employment and education. Egypt is facing some very serious environmental challenges. The country has limited natural resources and has to decide how to manage these to meet the needs of a growing population."

“Dan Rather and I just aren't especially chummy.”

“There are times in the lives of most of us, when we would have given all the world to be as we were but yesterday, though that yesterday had passed over us unappreciated and unenjoyed.”

Source : William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1899). “The Map of Life: Conduct and Character”

“Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and try to have patience, if you can.”

“Elvis a fight the dying light, Johnny Ray he's always crying.”

“No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.”

“The iPad - is that a phone or a computer? If I put it on my wall is it a TV?”

“For neo-conservatism is a quintessentially Jewish project: a re-sanctification in everyday life of the core values of western civilisation, and the achievement of human potential through virtuous practice. The neo-cons' crucial insight is that public signals through law, custom and tradition are the key to getting people to behave well. And that is a Jewish insight.”

“Now a Protestant confronting a Catholic ghost is exactly Shakespeare's way of grappling with what was not simply a general social problem but one lived out in his own life.”

Source : "An interview about Will in the World". "Bookworm" with Michael Silverblatt, stephengreenblatt.com. March 16, 2013.