Perhaps CATASTROPHE is the natural human environment, and EVEN though we spend a good deal of ENERGY trying to GET away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.

I left the woods for as GOOD a REASON as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more LIVES to live and could not SPARE any more time for that one.

What could I say to you that WOULD be of value, EXCEPT that perhaps you SEEK too much, that as a RESULT of your seeking you cannot find.

I was PART of a government that tried to resolve the question of Kosovo by war. Perhaps there is some JUSTICE that today I should be the person most responsible for finding a PEACEFUL solution.

When I was thirty and PERHAPS forty, I did not want a WIFE. It was too MUCH FUN being single.

When you have energy companies like Shell and BRITISH Petroleum, both of which are PERHAPS represented in this ROOM, saying there is a problem with excess carbon dioxide emission, I think we OUGHT to LISTEN.

I have NEVER SEEN Francis Crick in a modest mood. Perhaps in other COMPANY he is that way, but I have never had REASON so to JUDGE him.

There is PERHAPS nothing so bad and so DANGEROUS in LIFE as fear.

The first SENTENCE of a book is a HANDSHAKE, PERHAPS an EMBRACE.

Well it's a drastic procedure by your STANDARDS and mine, but for the PEOPLE who are LIVING in DESPERATION perhaps the best way to understand it is that it seems no more drastic to them than circumcision.

Don't be SENSITIVE if I should, in future, seem brusque, harsh, or even UNJUST in my criticism. I sincerely hope I never shall be; but if I should, remember that fault-finding is perhaps both my PRIVILEGE and my weakness, that CORRECTION is the only road to improvement, and that my quick temper and illness are ENTITLED to some consideration.