BBC Radio is a never-never land of broadcasting, a safe haven from commercial considerations, a honey pot for every scholar and every hare-brained nut to stick a finger into.

The helicopter is a fine way to travel, but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs share on a regular basis.

Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.

Killing is the payoff of war.

You can never have enough garlic. With enough garlic, you can eat The New York Times.

Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that.

The Bush Cabinet is quite interesting, there are no flashy people in there. No stars. They all seem quite focused and serious and knowledgeable about the areas to which they have been appointed.

It is always disarming to treat with the enemy, so to speak.

I would trust citizen journalism as much as I would trust citizen surgery.

We are on Sunday night because that is where they put us 30-odd years ago. I think we became a habit.

The Republicans learned well from Bill Clinton.

Things will start changing for the better when you begin trusting yourself.

If you find yourself in the midst of dire circumstances, focus on your current blessings and future victories.

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

I always felt tennis and winning was a byproduct of doing everything right.

If you think all the time every day of your life, you might as well kill yourself today and be happier tomorrow.

The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

Judaism is an historical religion.

Freedom to do what one likes is really bondage, while being free to do what one must, what is right, is real freedom.

Spend time cultivating your deepest desires, no matter how impractical or impossible they seem. It's perfectly OK to want the impossible. It's not OK to pretend that your desires don't matter.

We yield to none in our love, admiration and respect for the Buddha-the Dharma-the Sangha. They are all ours. Their glories are ours and ours their failures.