I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.

In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.

Pessimists calculate the odds. Optimists believe they can overcome them.

Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder; it is a howling reproach.

It becomes increasingly easy, as you get older, to drown in nostalgia.

Set your sights beyond what you can see. There is true majesty in the concept of an unseen power which can neither be measured nor weighed.

There's harmony and inner peace to be found in following a moral compass that points in the same direction regardless of fashion or trend.

There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page

You can almost measure where you are in life by the degree to which you have begun looking back rather than ahead.

What Moses brought down from Mt. Sinai were not the Ten Suggestions, they are Commandments. Are, not were.

To face despair and not give in to it, that's courage.

We never taste a perfect joy our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.

Listen to me carefully. You can become a legend. But it starts today!

A woman, even a prude, is not long at a loss, however dire her plight. She would seen always to have in hand the fig leaf our Mother Eve bequeathed to her.

Harry Potter has kindly joined us for my rebirthing party. One might go so far as to call him my guest of honor.

I think comedy Ive learned is really just about relaxing and trusting yourself and allowing yourself to fail.

If you're doing something new there is always a sense of fear or foreboding, but you're in new ground and you have to get out your machete and cut a new path.

Writing is a form of herding. I herd words into little paragraph-like clusters.

Great causes cannot be served by intellectual equipment alone, they call for spiritual effort of soul-force.

My album will manifest many things I saw,did or heard about; I talk first hand never word of mouth.

When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.