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I can't tell you if the use of force in Iraq today will last five days, five weeks or five months, but it won't last any longer than that.

I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

I don't think I'm a great songwriter, but I think I've learned a lot about it, and I don't think there's any one way to do it. I don't think I can control it at all. I can just kind of hope that it happens.

I will not comment on or confirm what are alleged to be stolen State Department cables. But I can say that the United States deeply regrets the disclosure of any information that was intended to be confidential, including private discussions between counterparts or our diplomats' personal assessments and observations.

The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise.

I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties.

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

I had very good support from Democrats and Republicans all throughout my administration. I had a very high batting average. We added more jobs per year in my four years than any other president since the Second World War.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

Had Rumsfeld said at any time 'get me a report on what's going on', he could have had it. You're right, it depends on choices that we make, which parts of the world we want to be in immediate contact with.

A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go to law school and/or business school.

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

There are conspiracies all over the Senate floor on any day!

I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book.

President Obama was asked not long ago to reflect on any mistakes he might have made. He said, well, 'I haven't communicated enough.' He said his job is to 'tell a story to the American people' - as if that's the whole problem here? He needs to talk more, and we need to be better listeners?

If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.

Any successful company in the valley gets acquisition offers and has to decide whether or not to take them.

Any good music must be an innovation.

I've always been a character actor, although I'm not quite sure what that means. All my scripts are absolutely covered in notes, so any time I say anything - even 'pass the salt' - I have six subtexts, comments on what I really mean when I'm saying that. Maybe that's what gives the impression that I'm saying one thing and thinking something else.

When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.

Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.