"If you try to do your best there is no failure."

"It is inappropriate for the Bush administration to trump up a case in which we are ballyhooed into war."

"It's mostly the financial chicanery that's going on. People are saying 'What kind of trust can we put in this market?'"

"My dreams for the future are simple: work, a happy, healthy family, a lovely long motorcycle ride, and continuing the struggle to awaken people to the need for serious human rights reform."

"I really like Gwyneth Paltrow a lot, as far as her career, because I think she's done a lot of small movies but she's also done great, big movies, and she's a really great actress."

"People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained."

"The work of Nigeria is not complete for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on empty stomach."

"I've had two callers ask, 'Did you ever work for someone who is poorer than you are?' Their idea is it takes a rich person to give you a job because jobs are something that are given to you, an inferior, from on high."