I had many teachers that were great positive role models and taught me to be a good person and stand up and be a good man. A lot of the principals they taught me still affect how I act sometimes and it's 30 years later.

An external electric field meeting it and passing through it affects the negative as much as the positive quanta of the atom and pushes the former to one side and the latter in the other direction.

I think anytime you can affect people in general in a positive way then you're a lucky individual.

Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.

I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful but the space on the page can be as affecting as where the text is. Like when Miles Davis doesn't play it has a poignancy to it.

All those authors there most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side that's the prose side that's the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you've enjoyed.

Challenging the integrity of the non-proliferation regime is a matter which can affect international peace and security.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

To feel much for others and little for ourselves to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections constitute the perfection of human nature.