There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.

So the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs politics investment and technology.

The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves or by any new technology.

In all human affairs there are efforts and there are results and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.

Ladies and gentlemen it is with great sadness that I announce that I will resign as Australia's Minister for Foreign Affairs. I am sad because I love this job. I'm totally dedicated to the work that we are doing in Australia's name around the world and I believe that we have achieved many good results for Australia and I'm proud of them.

I know people that I respect and admire and look up to who have had extra-marital affairs.

In Lincoln's day a President's religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings no attempts to woo the Religious Right. Few of Lincoln's countrymen knew anything at all of his religious beliefs.

The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me and attracted me.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.