Action based only on principles isnt always good even if it feels good.

The function of good journalism is to take information and add value to it.

I've been an agnostic for as long as I can remember ... so I don't know where we go. But if it turns out that the lights are just turned off and nothing happens, well, that's okay.

In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die.

The most successful people do not make up the rules as they go. They have a set of rules that they follow and they stick to them.

I know of no one who would be a good High Commissioner of Palestine except God.

Sometimes singed wings will fly with greater purpose.

Moreover, environmental health at the local level has become narrowly focused, very much defined around regulations and the attendant regulatory debates.

Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don't want time to come back.

I can't stay mad at Pope Frank. I just can't. It's a funny situation that I like the pope and Mel Gibson doesn't.

You will never 'find' time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth.

I never claimed to be famous. Notorious I have always been.

It takes a lifetime to build tradition.

A nation recruits men more easily than it can retrieve its honour.

I have a lot of actors I want to work with; Brad Pitt, Keanu Reeves, and Uma Thurman.