"National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties."

“I think my friend Tom Hanks knows me. He understands me very well. He's always had a sort of parental feeling toward me. He knows I'm a big mush ball, which is just part of my personality.”

“I truly believe that age -- if you're healthy -- age is just a number.”

“The man whose silent daysIn harmless joys are spent,Whom hopes cannot delude,Nor sorrow discontent:That man needs neither towersNor armour for defence,Nor secret vaults to flyFrom thunder's violence.”

Source : Thomas Campion (1907). “Poetical Works (in English) of Thomas Campion”

“It's not simply what we feel, but what we feed, that determines what we do and how we live.”

“The Force is within you. Force yourself.”

Source : "ABC Special Report" with Barbra Walters, March 24, 1997.

“I do not think anything serious should be done after dinner, as nothing should be before breakfast.”

“Our everyday, traditional ideas of reality are delusions which we spend substantial parts of our daily lives shoring up, even at the considerable risk of trying to force facts to fit our definition of reality instead of vice versa. And the most dangerous delusion of all is that there is only one reality.”

Source : "How real is real?: Confusion, disinformation, communication".

“When you are 18, 19, 20, you're used to being photographed all the time, in a certain way. So, the narcissism becomes almost out of control. And the way that young women are photographed, they become addicted to this feedback of the image.”

Source : "Reluctant pin-up: Marianne Faithfull reveals how she was damaged by her early brush with fame" by Rachel Shields, www.independent.co.uk. October 25, 2009.