I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.

There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes intolerances and violations.

The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply Russia has always had too much state and not enough society.

It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own it simply erases your own experience in history.

Americans believe with all their heart the vast majority of them and the vast majority of Floridians that the United States of America is simply the single greatest nation in all of human history.

Now when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says look people have learned from history.

My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic.

Rogue internet pharmacies continue to pose a serious threat to the health and safety of Americans. Simply put a few unethical physicians and pharmacists have become drug suppliers to a nation.

To do what we are doing in this budget to our children cutting their health care funds decreasing opportunity simply so we can pay for tax cuts and a war in Iraq is beyond belief and we need to reverse it.

In turn more physicians hospitals and other health care providers are severely limiting their practices moving to other states or simply not providing care.

The answer was that in Burundi having a clean bill of health has taken on a very particular meaning: unless and until you have paid for your hospital treatment you simply can't leave you are in effect a captive.

Virtue is simply happiness and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.

I don't have the recipe for happiness but I think the engine is simply having the desire.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply to enjoy simply to think freely to risk life to be needed.

Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth We are happy when we are growing.

The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity to put it simply.

Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.

I've got a great cigar collection - it's actually not a collection because that would imply I wasn't going to smoke every last one of 'em.

Great is truth but still greater from a practical point of view is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Aggression is simply another name for government.

A world in which government is burdened by historic debt philanthropy has limited resources and the private sector is only interested in its own personal gain is simply unsustainable.