Closeness to power heightens the dignity of all men.

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge.

If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.

He who is created by television can be destroyed by television.

When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he’s nobody’s friend.

The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie.

You can't get unless you give. And you have to give without wanting to get.

Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.

The Screamingflashed me back to a timewhen mom and dad were still togetherif you could call miles apart together.

There are days when it takes all you've got just to keep up with the losers.

We often live next to monsters unawares.

It’s a great city, Paris, a beautiful city––and––it was very good for me.

Change alone is unchanging.

I praise the God of grace; I trust His truth and might; He calls me His, I call Him mine. My God, my joy and light

The best people are like water, which benefits all things and does not compete with them. It stays in lowly places that others reject. This is why it is so similar to the Way.

The tarot card 'The Tower' seemed a chilling reflection of the events of September 11, 2001.

The more information you have, the more human our heroes become and consequently the less mysterious and godlike. They need to be godlike.

I'm so much more famous than I am financially successful. I mean, I live in a three-room apartment. I mostly make free videos on my couch. But I am fine.