As a columnist, I realize that whatever amount of corruption I expose, half my readers will block it out, although they may get a frisson of joy in the process.

The Greatest Generation got to save old tires, dig a Victory Garden and forgo sugar. The Richest Generation is being asked to shop.

Is puppy love the reason so many Americans are blind to the incompetence and waste of Republicans - who at a minimum are supposed to be good money managers - running Iraq reconstruction?

Here we will have possibly a bunch of tax dodgers deciding the election.

Is this the Olympics or One Life to Live?

What are movies for if not to have the good guys triumph over the bad ones?

Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

what you respond to in any work of art is the artist's struggle against his or her limitations

Time, as such doesn't travel! It's the paradox & uncertainty inside you that makes it travel.

We all die alone. We shall endure death as once we endured birth. You can’t share either experience.

In prosperity our friends know us in adversity we know our friends.

We tend to think of America's days of frontier exploration as being behind us, but that's because we tend not to think of the other 71% of our blue planet.

What love it to me...is his happiness. I'm not like you where I fall in love so I can be happy. All I need is for him to be smiling.

ADVERSITY CAN HARDEN YOU. OR IT CAN LOOSEN YOU UP AND MAKE YOU BETTER —IF YOU LET IT.

I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me.

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.