Journalism has become a sort of competitive screeching: what is trivial but noisy and immediate takes precedence over important matters that develop over time.

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.

Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy.

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.

And who is to say the truth can’t be a miracle?

It's every teacher's job to be rigorous about constantly being open to new ideas and innovation.

I was dreaming of Craig Carton.

I couldn't sleep knowing I was going to leave my Miami. It's always going to be my home, but it's not the same.

That song has the full extent of my mandolin abilities; I'm not a good mandolin player at all.

I don't have an issue finding guys attractive.

I've been obsessed with making movies since I was 15. I watched a lot of movies when I was young, and I decided that I wanted to do that because I was a passionate kid about watching movies.

Fury itself supplies arms.