"We would like to have friendly regimes with enough broad participation of their populations to maintain long-term stability, so that we would have not only access to the region's wealth, but we would be able to ensure the security of our good friend Israel."

“There was a time when people accepted magical experiences as natural. There were no priests then, and no one went chasing after the secrets of the occult.”

“Friends are very important to me, and I have always had many of them. There are probably many reasons why this is so, but two seem to me more valid than any of the others I am a naturally friendly person, and I hate to be alone.”

Source : Georg Solti, Harvey Sachs (1997). “Memoirs”, Knopf

“All of us confront limits of body, talent, temperament. But that is not all. We are, all of us, also constrained by our time, our place, our civilization.”

Source : Jeane J. Kirkpatrick (1983). “The Reagan phenomenon, and other speeches on foreign policy”, Aei Pr

“I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God.”

Source : "God Dies". Essay by Frances Farmer, 1931.

“Tiger is the greatest thing that's happened to the tour in a long time. He has brought incredible attention to golf at a time of year when football and the World Series always take precedence. Everything I've heard about him seems to be true.”

“I tell you these stories because these things happen to everyone. It's not about being starched or polished or cute or polite. It's about having ears that stick out, about breaking yet another glass. It's about seeing something for the first time and making a million mistakes and not ever getting completely discouraged.”

“New York is rich in culture, cuisine, and commerce.”

Source : "Michael's". www.newyorker.com. December 21, 2009.

“I want the brain to intervene between the observation and the mark.”

Source : Catherine Lampert, Richard Kendall, Euan Uglow (2007). “Euan Uglow: The Complete Paintings : Catalogue Raisonné”, p.52, Yale University Press