"What does not destroy me, makes me stronger."

“I think the future takes care of itself.”

Source : "State pols on the verge of stardom". Politico Interview, www.politico.com. July 12, 2012.

“Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.”

Source : Paracelsus (1967). “The Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Aureolus Philippus Theophrastus Bombast, of Hohenheim, Called Paracelsus the Great: Hermetic medicine and hermetic philosophy”

“Some women can touch a man and heal like Jesus. The man who sees sunrise from a Belle woman's bed will swear he's been born again.”

“Every time you open your wardrobe, you look at your clothes and you wonder what you are going to wear. What you are really saying is 'Who am I going to be today?”

“Let the record show that you can be a United States senator for 21 years. You can be 79 years old. You can be the chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and one of the most recognizable and widely-respected veteran public servants in your nation. But if you are female while all of those things, men who you defeat in arguments will still respond to you by calling you hysterical and telling you to calm down. They'll patronize you and say they admire your passion, 'sweetie,' but they deal in facts, not your silly, girly feelings. It's inescapable. You can set your watch by it.”

“No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.”

“Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children.”

“History is the gradual instant”