I have lifelong friends. My oldest friend, Herbie, has been a friend since I was 9. I've had bonds for over 50 years with people.

I have never understood the Iowa caucus.

I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening.

i never learned anything while i was talking.

There is nothing in your destiny, nothing in your future that you cannot accomplish.

I'm the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam.

Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.

The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.

You cannot talk to people successfully if they think you are not interested in what they have to say or you have no respect for them.

Anonymous sources are to journalism what silicon enhancements are to the feminine figure; they look impressive to the gullible, but something doesn't feel right.

The secret of success is an absolute ungovernable curiosity.

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.

When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.

we should contract our ideas of education, and expect no more from it than it is able to perform.

The rewards of the wild and the rewards of the survivor go to those who can dig deep, and, ultimately, to the guy who can stay alive.

My truffles? You took them? That's just mean!

Ez fer war, I call it murder,- There you hev it plain an' flat; I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer that. . . . . . An' you 've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.

The Eucharist becomes a microcosmic moment of belief and power in which we say we believe in the real presence of God in Jesus, in this bread, and in this wine.

According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.

The notion of auspiciousness is something positive, something with forward momentum, coming out of our actions.

Mindfulness meditation doesn't change life. Life remains as fragile and unpredictable as ever. Meditation changes the heart's capacity to accept life as it is.