"Gambling is being subsidized by the taxpayers"

“You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.”

Source : Remarks at town hall meeting, Kuwait, 8 Dec. 2004

“Thus, human beings are now carrying out a large scale geophysical experiment of the kind that could not have happened in the past...Within a few centuries we are returning to the atmosphere and oceans the concentrated organic carbon stored in sedimentary rocks over hundreds of millions of years.”

“There is a field beyond all notions of right and wrong. Come, meet me there.”

“Running has always been a relief and a sanctuary—something that makes me feel good, both physically and mentally. For me it's not so much about the health benefits. Those are great, but I believe that the best thing about running is the joy it brings to life.”

“There's no rage like old lady rage, just as there's no tenderness like old lady tenderness.”

“When Christmas doesn't fit your expectations of what the perfect holiday should be, think about how Joseph and Mary probably didn't think that manger was the perfect place for their child to be born. but look at what a perfect Christmas that turned out to be.”

“I discovered that seventeen-year-old girls have such huge verbal energy that their brain drives them to expend it every twenty seconds. On the third day I decided I had to find her a boyfriend -- if possible, a deaf one.”

“The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.”