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“The gift of life is the gift to suffer sometimes and to embrace it, heartbreak and all.”
Source : Source: collider.com
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“The war with Iraq ... had to be one of the greatest non sequiturs in military history. Attacked by a gang composed largely of Islamic militants from Saudi Arabia, the United States countered by invading an unrelated country, and one of the most secular in the Middle East at that.”
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“Getting older is hard.”
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“Ending torture and tyranny in Iraq was not a mistake. Supporting democracy in Iraq is not a mistake. Helping the long-suffering Muslims of Iraq who now seek to live democratically is not a mistake. In the long, long history of the Middle East, this breakthrough may one day be ranked as a dramatic turning point in regional history.”
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“The only moral lesson which is suited for a child--the most important lesson for every time of life--is this: 'Never hurt anybody.”
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“I don’t want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me.”
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“So much goes into doing a transplant operation. All the way from preparing the patient, to procuring the donor. It's like being an astronaut. The astronaut gets all the credit, he gets the trip to the moon, but he had nothing to do with the creation of the rocket, or navigating the ship. He's the privileged one who gets to drive to the moon. I feel that way in some of these more difficult operations, like the heart transplant.”
Source : "Presidential Medal of Freedom". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. April 11, 1991. 
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“It's not the microwave that's the problem, it's what people put into them. I know people lead busy lives but they should try to sit their children down at the table once a week and cook them simple food.”
Source : "Celebrity chef dishes microwave mothers" by Nicola Woolcock, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 02, 2001.
