When someone has the wit to coin a useful phrase, it ought to be acclaimed and broadcast or it will perish.

I'd rather be caught holding up a bank than stealing so much as a two-word phrase from another writer.

A person must try to worry about the things that aren't important, so that he won't worry about the things that are.

would be better served by continuing to hold an ownership position in a pure-play sporting goods retailer rather than a retail conglomerate.

No objects of value are worth risking the priceless experience of waking up one more day.

A good reporter remains a skeptic all his life.

No objects of value ... are worth risking the priceless experience of waking up one more day.

Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that they'll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?

As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.

You could just tell when a person belonged somewhere. That is something you can't fake, no matter how hard you try

Cleverness is like rouge - liberal application makes a woman look common and desperate. Wit is knowing how to apply it.

Bumper sticker: My kid beat the heck out of the student of the month.

The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future — which, of course, can only be experienced as the Now

Islam doesn't have a monopoly on violence in Africa. And violence plays a particularly critical role in places where statehood is weak at best, such as the Maghreb.

A hero is not a champion of things become, but of things becoming; the dragon to be slain by him is precisely the monster of the status quo.

I think I would like to write screenplays, books, really anything.

There is no other start to philosophy but wonder.