I think people can learn from my experience - you know, any young people who are under pressure, whether you work on Wall Street or you work in a factory in Alabama, and young journalists.

I am making amends and seeking forgiveness. My only hope is that some good can come out of my situation.

When we report stories, we don't just want to talk to people who did the right thing. We want to talk to people who did the wrong thing.

If they're all so brilliant and I'm such an affirmative-action hire, how come they didn't catch me?

I believe my own demons would have caught up with me regardless of my race and regardless of whether I worked at 'The Times.

I don't know how one would define an affirmative-action hire. I ultimately do not know what role race played in my hiring.

I used to walk around saying that I'm just another black man without a college degree.

It's hard to say what role race really played in my case.

I seek to be authentic and engaging, using my own experiences, being as vulnerable as I ask my clients to be, to enhance the process.

I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism.

Once I had a better beat, I needed to have an even better one. And somewhere in that climbing, I lost sight of, sort of, my moral and ethical underpinnings.

I don't fit into any stereotypes. And I like myself that way.

Because sometimes it’s being in a crowd that makes you feel lonelier than when you’re alone.

She loves him sobut he didn't stay.The wind can't blowthis storm away.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.

The reason why men who mind their own business succeed is that they have so little competition.

Politics in America has become a Jewish profession, just like arts and the law.

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.

The FDA is redefining birth control as abortion. The FDA is setting the bar higher for this kind of drug.

If the church is to be faithful it must be formed andordered from the inside of its experience and confession and not by borrowing from sources extenal to its own life.