There is only one option in Iraq: that we win.

What I see as the greatest threat to America is that the American people will put political pressure on their leaders to pull out of Iraq before we should.

There is only one option in Iraq: that we win.

We don't mind that we still have troops in Germany, or that we still have troops in Japan or Korea. But they are not in danger, and we know that they are in danger in Iraq.

We are going to have to be there until we defeat this enemy.

The ability of big money to shape perceptions - where you have four anti-climate lobbyists for every single member of the House and Senate - is a big factor.

Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.

The Lord has a way of working in our lives, and sometimes he brings us down low to bring new values back to our life.

I think our relationship with Epic had run its natural course, and it happened to coincide with the fulfillment of our contract. We decided not to resign with them.

Fear is incomplete knowledge.

The very essence of political philosophy is the carving out of an ethical system - strictly, a subset of ethics dealing with political ethics. Ethics is the one rational discipline that demands the establishment of a rational set of value judgments; political ethics is that subset applying to matters of State.

Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.

I do not want my new works to be generated in a market or audience of any kind.

Since I had cancer I've realised that every day is a bonus.

Ever since I was 2 or 3, I loved to perform for people. I would walk up to another table in a restaurant and crack a joke, sing a song, do a dance, or something entertaining, and the 'audience' would almost always smile and laugh.

It had not yet been named Silicon Valley, but you had the defense industry, you had Hewlett-Packard. But you also had the counter-culture, the Bay Area. That entire brew came together in Steve Jobs.

When you are an actor, rejection and disappointment are an occupational hazard.

Fame and fortune should never get in front of your passion. The passion will generate the fame and fortune if youre good enough.

The ability of a successful company to add functionality to its product has long been upheld.

We should bring in an environmental attitude, and I think luxury should automatically be about sustainability and quality.

Writing is a very easy way for me to express myself. When I was still at school, I would write for no reason other than I wanted to write.

Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away.

When you have the paparazzi hiding in the bushes outside your home, the only thing you can control is how you respond publicly.

Infatuation is like a drug that gives you the best high yet gives you the worst headache after.

One of the fantastic things about books, fiction or non-fiction, is the way they give you a chance to look into different lives.

When I was first starting out in the music industry, I was always coupled in the same sentence with Jessica Simpson, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera - and I was probably the worst of them. I think a lot of people back then thought, 'Mandy Moore... she'll probably go back to where she came from in a year.'

My mom was a waitress, and my dad was a plumber who worked for the City of San Clemente fixing mains breaks, so not too glamorous.

A nation has its first obligation to its own workers and its own poor.

Follow your passion. Listen to your heart. Trust the process. Be grateful. Life is magic and your dreams matter.