It is easier to denature plutonium than it is to denature the evil spirit of man.

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts.

Abraham Lincoln

But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.

Amartya Sen

...perhaps the hopes I have confessed to are of an illusory nature, too. But I hold fast to one distinction. Apart from the fact that no penalty is imposed for not sharing them, my illusions are not, like religious ones, incapable of correction.

Sigmund Freud

The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about.

Clifford Geertz

Men do not have to cook their food they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.

Edmund Leach

There are some amazing stories from all over this country, where people's work and contribution has been acknowledged. To be part of that is an absolutely fantastic feeling.

Kenneth Branagh

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Benjamin Franklin

Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.

Leo Buscaglia

There has been enough suffering in our country, there has been enough of children whose dreams die before they have a chance to grow and there has been enough of our elders who, having served their nation, are forced into indignity in their old age.

John Agyekum Kufuor

I make love with a focus and intensity that most people reserve for sleep.?

Dark Jar Tin Zoo

I like humor.

David Yates