If The Times said it, it was the absolute truth.

What's next for me? I don't know. So I'm in exactly the same boat as many of you.

It's a little dangerous to be a badass.

We human beings are a lot more resilient than we often realize. Resilient and perseverant.

A general truth is to have a good sense of humor. Roll with the punches of life's ups and downs. Laughing at yourself always helps.

You know the sting of losing or not getting something you badly want. When that happens show what you are made of.

In one's relationship with dogs and with a newsroom, a generous amount of praise and encouragement goes much better than criticism.

I have an older sister who sounds, unfortunately, exactly like me, and we sound like our mother did.

The printed newspaper is a powerful showcase for news, opinion and advertising.

I like the immediacy of blogs and the democratizing effects of letting millions of voices bloom on the Web.

Women are damn resilient.

We will find true peace only when we learn to see that there is no difference among ourselves, realize that we are different manifestations of one, and we love each other as brother and sister.

Be creative, be inventive minded, dream bigger that's the way to the promised land (your destiny).

I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.

Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

An old stomach reforms more whiskey drinkers than a new resolve.

One thing I'm doing on the new Titanic recording is actually bringing in different acoustic spaces.

If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.

Youth is not an essential, but rather an accidental property. Nobody is in essence young. One either ceases to be or ceases to be young.

The greater the value of the object desired, the greater the effort required in its attainment.

I'm a conservative. I was an avid supporter of Ronald Reagan; I thought he was fabulous.