Born on April 7th

"Really, of all the important mission responsibilities assigned to United States Strategic Command by the president, none is more important than our responsibility to deter a strategic attack on the United States and our allies and partners."

"Deterrence is still fundamentally about influencing an actor's decisions. It is about a solid policy foundation. It is about credible capabilities. It is about what the U.S. and our allies as a whole can bring to bear in both a military and a nonmilitary sense."

"Nuclear weapons continue to occupy a unique place in global security affairs. No other weapons, in my opinion, anyway, match their potential for prompt and long-term damage and their strategic impact."

"U.S. nuclear weapons that are available for presidential use are targeted against broad ocean areas."

"Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious."

"My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind."

"Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl."

"You look rather rash my dear your colors don't quite match your face."

"I don't think I'm ugly, but I never thought I was that special."

"I'm a big fan of British cinema; I think we make some unbelievably brilliant films, but they can quite often have a dark feel."

"I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying."

"My job isn't about pursuing fame and then becoming an actor. It's about becoming an actor, and if fame follows suit, that's fine."

"Education never really interested me, to be fair. I mean, education does interest me, but academic school study is a different thing. I can't quite grasp that."

"I was a mixture of a country boy and a town boy, really. Chichester is a town on the coast of England, and I grew up all along that strip of coast that Chichester branches out into. Sometimes I was living in a house in the country, and sometimes I was living in a town."

"I like going to see live bands. Live bands can be quite heavy, but I think it's very relaxing at the same time because you feel so happy and chilled-out."

"I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer."

"I think it's really important whilst you're a young actor to try as many new things as possible... to try and do something you haven't necessarily been seen doing before."

"The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'"

"In the field of creativity & art, to create is to take a leap of faith into the quiet canvas of your own imagination."

"Art is the expression of our deepest questions, painted in colors that words cannot reach. As a scientist & scholar, this is the foundational truth I have observed."

"Every act of creation begins with a willing heart and the courage to make a mistake."

"Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today."

"At this moment, by an undeserved stroke of fortune, I am the direct voice of the poets of my race and the indirect voice for the noble Spanish and Portuguese tongues."

"Latinos are learning English. That doesn't mean that they should sacrifice their original language or that they should give up this in-betweeness that is Spanglish."

"'Don Quixote' is a very political book that has been used by diplomats, politicians, guerrilla fighters, to inspire people, to convince them that they themselves can become quixotic. George Washington had a copy of the book on his desk when signing the U.S. Constitution."

"Spanglish is the encounter: perhaps the word is marriage or divorce of English and Spanish, but also of Anglo and Hispanic civilizations - not only in the United States but in the entire continent and, perhaps, also in Spain."

"If a writer doesn't do anything but give a new word to his language and, from there, maybe to other languages, I think that writer redefines the world."

"How many different works of art have been inspired by 'Don Quixote?' Thousands. Most people enter the novel, for better or worse, through the musical the 'Man Of La Mancha.'"

"Spanglish is a creative way also of saying, 'I am an American, and I have my own style, my own taste, my own tongue.'"

"American Jews are no longer a homogenous minority; we come in all colors and from all corners of the world."