The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to dare all things.

Managers at [the nuclear] sector should know that we need diplomacy and not slogans, .. This [is] where we should use all our leverages with patience and wisdom, without provocation and slogans that can give pretexts to the enemies.

Official intelligence on Iraqi weapons programs was flawed, but even with its flaws, it was not what led to the war.

It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying.

One of the most gracious dispensations of God concerning His saints is their lovely unawareness of sanctity. The nearer they move to Him, the more conscious are they of sin. If it were impossible at times not to note their own growth in grace, it were impossible also to forget that it was all by His power. If they could be persuaded to admit their progress and talk of it at all, the language of their heart would be this: 'If God could do this in me, He could do it in anyone

The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.

Grief and constant anxiety kill nearly as many women as men die on the battlefield.