It takes bravery to end a relationship.

I can't cultivate a relationship with my child if it's between takes. I tried that on a movie and realized 'This is not going to work.' It will work some of the year but not 12 months a year.

I do not think that Mulder trusts any one other than Scully. He s very solitary. She is the only one who takes him seriously. I don t know if they re in love. In a way their relationship is deeper than that because they cannot live without each other.

The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence the power you have over other people's lives.

This revolution the information revoultion is a revolution of free energy as well but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very crude today yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now or 50 years from now?

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used that's great.

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

If you're not making mistakes then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics mistakes are wounding emotionally but you recover. Personally wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms helps me reflect and in the process restore my creativity.

Every person has only so much attention to give and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago.

Being out and about talking to residents and representing their views is in my view as important to politics as the grandstanding that takes place in Westminster.

Once you start saying 'Let's talk political my own politics my own aspirations ' it can become not just distracting in that it takes time but it can become confusing and frustrating and is this now a political agenda or a governmental agenda.

I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

The United States brags about its political system but the President says one thing during the election something else when he takes office something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.

Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level.

It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.

I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could but it takes devotion and talent.

I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point life itself takes over again.