Vice-President Ford, possibly preparing for higher duties, assessed Kissinger's part in the Syrian-Israeli troop disengagement as "the great diplomatic triumph of this century or perhaps any other.

Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not.

William F. Buckley, Jr. does not so much speak as exhale, but he exhales polysyllabically, and the results are remarkable.

Those for whom words have lost their value are likely to find that ideas have also lost their value.

To harness the power of television for the education of our nation's children, everyone must get involved - television programmers, government leaders, teachers, and above all, parents.

We live in a big and marvelously varied world. Television ought to reflect that.

Will America be the death of English? I'm glad I asked me that. My well-thought-out mature judgment is that it will.

Not communicating saves energy; it keeps people from worrying about things they cannot do anything about; and it eliminates an enormous amount of useless talk.

In a decade, America's mighty rivers will have reached the boiling point.

Abraham Lincoln was on the side of the social scientists when he said, "God must have loved the people of lower and middle socioeconomic status, because he made such a multiplicity of them.

A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.

Words tend to bounce off nature as they try to deliver nature's language into the hands of another language foreign to it.

She's a people-mechanic and always knows when I'm malfunctioning.

When it comes to money, ignorance is NOT bliss. What you don't know CAN hurt you.

Life wasn’t perfect, but it wasn’t supposed to be. Eternal beauty could not exist if it were not for the face of a fatal flaw.

My mother became much older when I came out (ed's note: of detention). She had problems with her hearing and high blood pressure. But they still support me.

I think that there's gonna be a lot of work to do in order to consolidate the transformations that I was interested in.

If you don't do what Fear says...you'll go ahead and speak up, you'll sign up, you'll buy, you'll sell, you'll jump.

When we're binging, we do not think about death. We just think about how good it tastes.

Google never knew how successful key words would be.