Is it true that some stories only just manage to be born? Or do these stories always seek their own path into the world and do they always, eventually, find a way of being told?

People who make time for the sadness in your life, not just the joy, are worth keeping around.

He didn’t like the idea of leaving unfinished business behind. He had wanted definite answers about the heart attacks to be able to turn the page on who or what caused so many of his brothers to die.

Love connects a man to his woman, money a woman to his man

I would rather put up with Rush Limbaugh and live in a country where we all do have freedom of speech.

I started as a teenager going up on commercials.

The most influential person in Europe in the last 20 to 30 years has been Margaret Thatcher. Without her we'd all be living in some French bloody unemployed republic.

If you found yourself in a situation where you could either save a drowning man, or you could take a Pulitzer prize winning photograph of him drowning, what shutter speed and setting would you use?

I don't ever expect to be permanently happy. I don't think that's part of the human condition.

There were so many odd, strange things about Abraham Lincoln that I think nobody knew how to pigeonhole him.

The old priest Peter Gilligan Was weary night and day; For half his flock were in their beds, Or under green sods lay.