I have the necessary lack of tact.

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.

My husband loves me, this is great delight.

Occasionally the state of the planet can knock me off my perky perch.

I don't have to hear that criticism, that idotic criticism anymore.

I need a big wave to really excel. The smaller stuff is a bit like...ballet for me.

I have to go," he said at last, getting to his feet. "I shouldn't even be here, but I cannot keep my self away from you. I worry about you in every waking moment. I love you, Luce. So much it hurts.

If hearts really could sink, Kaylin's was busily rearranging her internal organs.

Best things in life are free, and money can't buy you love.

I'm not an activist at all. I'm a filmmaker, and I wanted the people involved to tell their own story.

A diamond, which is the hardest of stones, not yielding unto steel, emery or any other thing, is yet made soft by the blood of a goat.

Not becoming 'something' scares me the most. I just want to be remembered for something great.