There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.

I was 21 in 1968 so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies in the West anyway would have seemed absurd in 1968.

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.

I've just finished my next collection Possible Side Effects and I'm now working on a collection of holiday stories as well as a memoir about my relationship with my father.

It's impossible. You try to have any kind of relationship with your family with a man or with a friend and you have to be on the phone and the Internet the entire time.

You know it's possible for two humans to be in a relationship without there needing to be some public reason for that relationship.

So then the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill it's the best possible substitute for it.

It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.

It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war by analysing possible causes by trying to remove them by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.

It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible for evil to form an alliance with good.

I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.

Power is action the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

To protect people's lives and keep our children safe we must implement public-works spending and do so proudly. If possible I'd like to see the Bank of Japan purchase all of the construction bonds that we need to issue to cover the cost. That would also forcefully circulate money in the market. That would be positive for the economy too.

I have a treadmill and I work out with my trainer Julie Diamond as often as possible. She's so positive.

By allowing the positive ions to pass through an electric field and thus giving them a certain velocity it is possible to distinguish them from the neutral stationary atoms.

I've always kind of lived my life to be as much as possible a positive role model for children.

Politics is the art of the possible.

I can tell you that too much money is corrupting American politics. Don't blame the American public. The U.S. Supreme Court has a lot to answer for because it has made it impossible for Congress to reduce the corrupting influence of money on American political life.

Politics is the art of the possible creativity is the art of the impossible.

Anything's possible in politics.

Politics in a literary work is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert something vulgar and however something which is impossible to ignore.