One of my weaknesses happens to be lying, and I could tell you that I'm never going to lie again in my life, but that would be a lie.

I am making amends and seeking forgiveness. My only hope is that some good can come out of my situation.

When we report stories, we don't just want to talk to people who did the right thing. We want to talk to people who did the wrong thing.

If they're all so brilliant and I'm such an affirmative-action hire, how come they didn't catch me?

I believe my own demons would have caught up with me regardless of my race and regardless of whether I worked at 'The Times.

I don't know how one would define an affirmative-action hire. I ultimately do not know what role race played in my hiring.

I used to walk around saying that I'm just another black man without a college degree.

I think people can learn from my experience - you know, any young people who are under pressure, whether you work on Wall Street or you work in a factory in Alabama, and young journalists.

It's hard to say what role race really played in my case.

I seek to be authentic and engaging, using my own experiences, being as vulnerable as I ask my clients to be, to enhance the process.

I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism.

Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend.

Our own freewill, to choose the paths we take, no greater deed could ever be done than for another's sake.

You know, every year has been fantastic for me, I'm still here, I'm still alive and it's been fantastic.

Replace perfectionism with persistence. After all, in recovery and life, it's persistence that really pays off. Forget about perfection.

History is like a ghost. It is as dead as alive.

Crazy. Karma is a b****. Gets you every time. Its not good to wish bad on anybody. God sees everything!

It's not that fun to just play a villain, without any reasoning behind it.

I don't mind being cast as some kind of a pantomime baddie, but I am very fair in business. I always have been. I pride myself on being fair.