We couldn't spend $91 billion if we wanted to.

We couldn't spend $91 billion if we wanted to.

It takes four months to ship food aid and 40 percent of the cost is in the shipping. People cannot eat shipping costs. We have had people die when there are surpluses in the markets.

Development does not take place in Washington, DC. Development takes place in the rest of the world.

I had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting.

Those who cannot renounce attachment to the results of their work are far from the path.

We have followed a path of moderation, development is our priority, national unity, good community relations, Muslims and non Muslims, this is what has given us the advantage.

When I learned that flour pound for pound has as many calories as sugar, and that when eating pasta you're basically eating cake, I was size 23, and my neck was restricting my breathing, and so I got on a microbiotic diet and got myself an exercise bike.

It doesn't matter what kind of book you write - you ought to write it well and with some kind of style and elegance.

We are the world. We are the people and we deserve better not because we're worth it but because no worth can be put on the incalculable, on the infinite, on life.

An international race in the relevant technologies is getting under way at this point, not necessarily with an understanding of where that race leads in the long run, but strongly motivated by the short-term payoffs.

It is almost impossible to throw dirt on someone without getting a little on yourself

The U.S. currency has been the most attractive currency to be in for very, very long periods of time.

I've been curious about certain things, but didn't let them get in the way of my life. I don't know how people becoem successful with some kind of habit.

I have great difficulty sitting in the middle of the night and writing. Everything I do comes spontaneous. Sometimes it takes a long time; sometimes it comes just like that.

I can't accept collective responsibility for the decision to commit Britain now to military action in Iraq without international agreement or domestic support.

Your body language shapes who you are.

It's interesting with my blog, because it feels to me less like a blog and more like a forum, because my readers are so funny and leave hysterical comments. And I'm not being humble when I say that very often, the comments are so much better than the post originally was.

All relationships are a learning experience, even ones you continue to be in. If you don't see them as that, then that's a problem.

I've been on the board of UCLA Film and TV School, and I went to UCLA. I realized that the same movie theater that was there when I went to school, 30 years later is the same movie theater in the same condition. There was an opportunity to refurbish an existing room, and I jumped at the opportunity.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

Now, what space ultimately is - I should confess, I think most physicists believe - we don't yet know.

Of course there are big differences in length and character and vocabulary, but each level has its particular pleasures when it comes to the words one can use and the way one uses them.

Recently I saw Kasparov and he looked to me as still young and potent champion.

I do wish I'd had a better career. Who wouldn't?

Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.

I'm not on chef level, but I'd make a good line cook. That's not too shabby.

As far as money goes, there's a saying in Denmark: 'Your last suit doesn't have any pockets.' You can't take it with you. You can make all the money you want, but who cares?