when someone has caused harm, harming them might not be the move.

Everything man does creates more harm than good. We have to accept that fact and not delude ourselves into thinking something is sustainable.

That everyone understood and respected the food pyramid, the way it all works. Good food doesn’t come cheap. You know, there’s a lot of heart and soul and care that goes in producing as well as cooking. So I’d give a little bit more love to farmers.

But if our institutions of democracy are not working, that is an even greater threat to our national security

I have a horrible capacity to be unctuous to people I want to impress.

Make friends and do all you can to keep them. And try to be useful.

When I was little I wanted to be a conductor. I knew there was a man in a smart coat who waved his arms around at the opera and I thought: "There's the job for me."

My brother. I was a precious child and had this competitive thing with my older brother, which I don't think he had with me. He was very innovative and I would steal his thunder.

Three children aged three, one and 0.

I’d have Nunc Dimittis in G, followed by Gute Nacht and Be Thou My Vision.