You don't smear somebody as a racist when there is obviously nothing there.

Circumstantial evidence is evidence.

We in the press like to say we're honest brokers of information, and it's just not true. The press does have an agenda.

I have met guys who work the overnight shift at 7-11, selling Slurpees and Camels to insomniacs who have more introspection than a lot of people in the mainstream media.

The evening news is a concept whose time has come and gone.

The most meaningless term in the English language is "I take full responsibility." When a politician utters those words it means absolutely nothing.

I didn't say one negative word about poor people or about middle-class people or anything else. All I said was that the rich deserve our gratitude.

I respect the Kennedy family. I respect their service. They do a tremendous amount of good. You don't blame the children for the sins of the father and all of that.

I mean, I think everybody realizes that calling people racist is a waste of time, nobody buys it anymore.

There's a kind of journalistic narcissism that New York-based journalists are guilty of.

Except for talk radio, liberals pretty much control the culture.

No matter how loud the sirens or how numerous the hazard signs, we all touch the flames at least once to prove they're hot.

You should never ask anyone for anything. Never- and especially from those who are more powerful than yourself.

Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!

It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.

Nearness to God brings likeness to God. The more you see God the more of God will be seen in you.

The world is sagging, snagging, scaling, spalling, pilling, pinging, pitting, warping, checking, fading, chipping, cracking, yellowing, leaking, stalling, shrinking, and in dynamic unbalance.

Even though people may be well known they still hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth - birth, marriage, death.

Every parent knows that for a kid, the car is chloroform.

Each delicately and fiercely imaged poem is a tribute to perseverence and survival and a lesson for us all.

A moment of kindness can produce a mood of harmony between heaven and earth. Purity of heart can leave a fine example for a hundred generations.