Journalism is organized gossip.

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Funerals and weddings were commonplace, and nothing could have been so interesting to them as the coming of the end of the world ... unless it had been a first-class circus.

The storyteller is one who comes bearing a great and lasting gift.

Jesus was the first great teacher of men who showed a genuine sympathy for childhood. When He said "Of such is the kingdom of heaven," it was a revelation.

I liked being a person. I wanted to keep at it.

But I did it! That's the thing—I did it! What will my father say when he hears I murdered a man? Lorna, I see what I did. I murdered myself, too! I've been running around in circles. Now I'm smashed!

Come on you target for faraway laughter. Come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine!

Say, for example, you develop the ability to make parking meters disappear. It's probably easier to put a quarter in it. That would be the wisdom on the subject.

I was hospitalized five times in 2011 because of my skiing. Fracturing my left shoulder twice, snapping my anterior cruciate ligament once and smashing my scapula into five pieces.

To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world--that I am able to change it in positive ways.

Affirmations don't make something happen; they make something welcome.

He uses common sense to judge not the intentions of an action but its consequences.

It's not up to me ... to make the world consistent.

That's pretty tough talk from a guy who has fewer days at work this year than he has houses.