"I will not, nor will I ever, publicly divulge sensitive intelligence sources and methods. For when that happens, our national security is endangered and lives can be lost."

“Looking outward to the blackness of space, sprinkled with the glory of a universe of lights, I saw majesty-but no welcome. Below was a welcoming planet. There, contained in the thin, moving, incredibly fragile shell of the biosphere is everything that is dear to you, all the human drama and comedy. That's where life is; that's were all the good stuff is.”

“I was heading off to my new world. But I was taking a part of my past, and the future, along with me for the ride.”

“Zerbrowski said, "Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try." It took me a second to realize that he had just quoted Star Wars to me. It made me smile, and in that moment I loved him, just for that.”

“There is no such thing as abstract art, or else all art is abstract, which amounts tot the same thing. Abstract art no more exists than does curved art yellow art or green art.”

“I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com

“Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong.”

Source : "Ed Miliband: Labour's catastrophic loss of trust over Iraq" by Patrick Wintour and Allegra Stratton, www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2010.

“When we finally give up the struggle to find fulfillment "out there," we have nowhere to go but within. It is at this moment of total surrender that a new light begins to dawn.”

Source : Shakti Gawain (2015). “The Shakti Gawain Essentials: 3 Books in 1: Creative Visualization, Living in the Light & Developing Intuition”, p.158, Mango Media Inc.

“Porkchops and bacon, my two favorite animals.”