"Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods."

"I told you I'm not going to criticize my successor. I'll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people at a drop of a hat and I don't believe that persuasion isn't going to work. Therapy isn't going to cause terrorists to change their mind."

"The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom."

"The pursuit of excellence requires knowing that the silence between the notes creates the music."

"No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience."

"The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them."

"I am not just a celebrity, I'm a human-rights advocate for the last 20 years."

"It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed."