Alan Rittenhouse: I know you're just a reporter, but you used to be a person, right?

Do not work at Walmart expecting to receive your salary from Microsoft.

Morning Short List1. Woke up ✓2. Air to breath ✓3. Food to eat ✓4. Roof over head ✓ ...yep, it's a Good day!

The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy.

You put yourself out there in the truest way you can and hope others do the same. You'll connect or you won't, but you did what you could.

arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way.

In fashion, we don't often know the prices. We don't have time to go into the stores.

By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.

I've never swayed from who I am. People have seen me on television, and they know what I'm like and they know what I do and they respect me for what I do. They know that I'm huggy and kissy.

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

The middle of every successful project looks like a disaster.