If I own a large part of SCOTLAND, I can turn the people off the land practically into the SEA or across the sea. I can take women in child-bearing and THROW them into the SNOW and leave them there. That has been done. I can do it for no better reason than I think it is better to shoot deer on the land than ALLOW people to live on it.

In the years when HIV was a killer, any parent of an openly GAY person was TERRIFIED. I knew my mother well enough that she would spend every day PRAYING that I didn't COME across that virus. She'd have WORRIED like that.

My Norwegian wife Aase was a Pan Am stewardess back in the Seventies when we met. She was very attractive, and we became GOOD FRIENDS, but I was travelling a LOT and she was jetting back and forth across the ATLANTIC, so it was a while before we got together.

There are a LOT of BIG spec HOUSES now all across Connecticut, a lot of ostentatious showing of wealth.

You can accomplish anything that you dedicate yourself to. THINK how MANY people struggle across the WORLD, across the COUNTRY. I know anything is possible if you set your MIND, your body, your soul, and your faith to it.

I swam ACROSS Skaneateles Lake, about a mile, when I was 11 years old. I remember FEELING when I was in the middle of the lake that I would be there FOREVER, and having no idea where on shore I'd END up. I made it, and I'm proud of the determination and PERSISTENCE that took.

Very often, we think of LEADERSHIP being at the very top of an organisation. I think what's unique about ABG is that we have a very strong cadre of LEADERS across the organisation who are highly empowered and therefore play a very MAJOR role in the GROWTH and evolution of the organization.

For me, getting my PERSONALITY ACROSS is so IMPORTANT in getting that connection for people that ENJOY my music.

A SINGLE CONVERSATION ACROSS the table with a WISE man is better than ten years MERE study of books.

If Mr. Obama could WALK across the PEACE Bridge in Hiroshima - whose balustrades were designed by the Japanese-American sculptor Isamu Noguchi as a reminder both of his ties to East and West and of what HUMANS do to one another out of hatred - it would be both a real and a symbolic step toward creating a world that knows no FEAR of nuclear THREAT.

And you know, it's not just illegal immigration. Terrorists can come across. They're devastating our ranchers down in SOUTHERN ARIZONA - DROP HOUSES, kidnapping, automobile accidents, extortion, drugs, the spill-over with the drug cartels. We're FACING all of it.

At a BOOK FESTIVAL in Fort Lauderdale, I met DAVID Eisenhower, Ike's grandson, who was promoting his book 'Going Home to Glory: A Memoir of Life with Dwight D. Eisenhower,' in which he describes attending the Yankees' 154th game in 1961. The whole family had been following Mantle and Maris chase Babe Ruth's home RUN record across the country.

I've ALWAYS had an eye for nature, but it's the sort of THING to keep quiet about, because I don't want to COME across as a mad hippy. But it makes SENSE to appreciate those things.

That's the GREAT irony of allowing passionate people to work from home. A MANAGER's natural instinct is to worry that her workers aren't getting enough work DONE. But the real THREAT is that they will wind up working too hard. And because the manager isn't sitting across from her worker anymore, she can't LOOK in the person's eyes and see burnout.

My father came by himself across the North Korean border when he was SEVENTEEN. And hasn't seen his BROTHERS or sisters or parents SINCE then. And he DIED some time ago, but never SAW any of his relatives. My mother was a refugee in war-torn Korea.