An earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

The world is governed by opinion.

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.

May your life preach more loudly than your lips.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.

All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd even toward the best objective.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

On the flip side, I enjoy covering the Arab world, I've spent my entire career here in the Middle East, but I would never call myself a war correspondent.

Tobacco . . . is not prohibited in the Scriptures, though, as Samuel Butler points out, St. Paul would no doubt have denounced it if he had known of it.

I pore over every word on the cereal box at breakfast, often more than once. You can ask me anything about shredded wheat.

You can't make a good show based on pure verisimilitude, pure anti-drama. But you have to acknowledge a lot of ordinary life. Most TV doesn't do that.

Change has to come from outside our corrupt system.

The chance to be both artistically appreciated and commercially appreciated... That's what you hope for.

When I was younger I wanted to be an airline pilot, but that lasted for about 30 seconds.

Pain pays no attention to moans or excuses.

A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.