It won't make for a quiet life but it will make for an interesting paper vastly more significant because it is doing something only a daily paper can do.

The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.

Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.

Maybe you are the "cool" generation. If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.

There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness.

We all live in a televised goldfish bowl.

While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader.

The presumption of innocence is not just a legal concept. In commonplace terms, it rests on that generosity of spirit which assumes the best, not the worst, of the stranger.

If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious.

You and I know that there is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball gladly.

The fullness or emptiness of life will be measured by the extent to which a man feels that he has an impact on the lives of others.

If only we could crawl inside our dreams and live there. Why can't I live inside my dream?

I am not Nigerian because I was born in Nigeria but because Nigeria was born in me.

Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.

Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.

Those fortunate enough to find or create a practical intersection of the three circles have the basis for a great work life.

A lot of people, I think, would love to see the earth from above, wear a spacesuit. Certainly, when I was a kid, I wanted to wear a spacesuit.

I think it's about time we gave up religion and got back to God.

All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.

You're thrown to the side and then you think, oh, there's more to life than what we really can just see in front of us. There's something else going on.

In fact, it is precisely because we have changed books that the chaos in our country has gotten worse than ever before.