Far too many Americans formulate their own personal expert opinions based on the Golden Rule and the Eight-second Soundbyte.

I'm beginning to wonder when the Doomsday Clock will be reset to five minutes before 1939?

The commandment was to ‘Love thy neighbor, ’ not ‘Love thy government.

If all we’re prepared for is unconventional warfare, suddenly a massed conventional attack becomes an asymmetric advantage.

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist

Life has its sunshine and its rain, sir... its days and its nights... its peaks and its valleys...

Virtues, of ... Justice: Wrong none by doing injuries or omitting the benefits that are your duty.

Joan Mitchell, Joan Baez, Judy Collins - that was my mom's era.

Winston Churchill - fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.

Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, I have no desire to make my own toxins.

The ship is safest when it is in port, but that’s not what ships were built for.

My only real claim to anyone's attention lies in my writing

I will be talking with gymnasts from some of the other countries. I will be getting a feel for what they're thinking and what they're doing. It should be a really great meet

I feel very strongly that you can't just beat people up anymore; you have to work hand in hand and find ways to compromise, and get big business involved, because it won't happen otherwise.