Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.

In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.

Pessimists calculate the odds. Optimists believe they can overcome them.

Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder; it is a howling reproach.

It becomes increasingly easy, as you get older, to drown in nostalgia.

Set your sights beyond what you can see. There is true majesty in the concept of an unseen power which can neither be measured nor weighed.

There's harmony and inner peace to be found in following a moral compass that points in the same direction regardless of fashion or trend.

There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page

You can almost measure where you are in life by the degree to which you have begun looking back rather than ahead.

What Moses brought down from Mt. Sinai were not the Ten Suggestions, they are Commandments. Are, not were.

To face despair and not give in to it, that's courage.

A bookshop is a peaceful sanctuary of silent voices waiting to heard

The number 1 thing that I don't want to see in a story is when characters exist simply to be proven wrong.

The search for a personal identity is the life task of a teenager.

Your proudest moment is to watch your egg not just function, but to achieve on her own.

Churches whose members fight with one another have lost their vision for the lost.

What we get in steerage is not the refuse, but the sinew and bone of all the nations.

For decades, I have supported adoption, and have helped tens of thousands of children worldwide.

Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare. [Lat., Devine, si tu peux, et choisis, si tu l'oses.]

I'm making music for the people. If y'all love the music, y'all gonna buy the music.

To be married to a wife who can set type is happiness indeed.