Every creative act, however small, enriches our species and the world around us. To find and nurture talent, is to be truly wealthy.

Faith is blind belief. Atheism is blind disbelief. No one has all the information needed to take up such fixed positions.

Human knowledge is but a ripple on the water's surface. To go deeper, we must accept the fact that we don't know everything

When you choose to look down on something, you render yourself incapable of understanding it.

Ah, sleep, clothe me in thy velvet cloak.

Great leaders lead by example, not by making an example of others.

The only way to ensure democracy functions correctly is to question its governance constantly. Fail to do so and you may awake to find yourself living in a police state.

For even in the pit of darkness, the beacon of humanity can always shine through.

There's nothing man can imagine that nature hasn't already created a zillion times better.

The bravest thing David Bowie ever did was to go on stage after Queen at Live Aid.

Fantasy is a reaction to the constraints of reality.

Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.

I do not have deep theological understanding or opinion, but I do not read the Bible as the literal word of God.

My mission is to figure out the journalistic model for the digital medium, finding out how we get the right stories readers want, at the right time and wherever they want to read them.

Warren Buffett's company reportedly owes the IRS a billion dollars in back taxes. When he said he wasn't paying enough taxes, he wasn't kidding.

When we travel with a sense of mission, we attract events, people and opportunities toward us.

To renounce things is not to give them up. It is to acknowledge that all things go away.

It was another nervous Tim Henman match - I'm not sure how he manages to get through them, let alone us!

Sometimes he sits at your feet looking into your face with an expression so gentle and caressing that the depth of his gaze startles you.

I want my books to sell, to be read. I'm not interested in being obscure.

We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know.